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Command decisions / the authors, Martin Blumenson [and others] ; edited with introductory essay by Kent Roberts Greenfield.

Author/creator United States. Department of the Army. Office of Military History
Other author/creatorBlumenson, Martin.
Other author/creatorGreenfield, Kent Roberts, 1893-1967.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoWashington, D.C. : Office of the Chief of Military History Dept. of the Army, 1960.
Descriptionviii, 565 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Germany first : the basic concept of allied strategy in World War II / Louis Morton -- The German decision to invade Norway and Denmark / Earl F. Ziemke -- Decision to land United States forces in Iceland, 1941 / Byron Fairchild -- Japan's decision for war / Louis Morton -- The decision to evacuate the Japanese from the Pacific coast / Stetson Conn -- The decision to withdraw to Bataan / Louis Morton -- The decision to invade North Africa (TORCH) / Leo J. Meyer -- U.S. merchant shipping and the British import crisis / Richard M. Leighton -- The Persian corridor as a route for aid to the USSR / Robert W. Coakley -- Overlord versus the Mediterranean at the Cairo-Tehran conferences / Richard M. Leighton -- MacArthur and the admiralties / John Miller, Jr. -- Hitler's decision on the defense of Italy / Ralph S. Mavrogordato -- General Lucas at Anzio / Martin Blumenson -- General Clark's decision to drive on Rome / Sidney T. Mathews -- The 90-division gamble / Maurice Matloff -- The anvil decision : crossroads of strategy / Maurice Matloff -- General Bradley's decision at Argentan (13 August 1944) / Martin Blumenson -- Logistics and the broad-front strategy / Roland G. Ruppenthal -- The decision to launch operation market-garden / Charles B. MacDonald -- The German counteroffensive in the Ardennes / Charles V.P. von Luttichau -- Luzon versus Formosa / Robert Ross Smith -- The decision to halt at the Elbe / Forrest C. Pogue -- The decision to use the atomic bomb / Louis Morton.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: United States. Dept. of the Army. Office of Military History. Command decisions. Washington, 1960
LCCN 59060007
Govt. docs number D 114.2:D 35

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