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The Supreme Command

A description of General Eisenhower's wartime command, focusing on the general, his staff, and his superiors in London and Washington and contrasting Allied and enemy command organizations
Print Book, English, 1954
Office of the Chief of Military History, Dept. of the Army, Washington, D.C., 1954
United States Army in World War II, The European theater of operations
Government publications
xxi, 607 pages : illustrations, portraits, maps (some folded, color) ; 26 cm
1247005
The Supreme Commander
The Coalition Command
The nature of SHAEF
The machinery of SHAEF
Planning before SHAEF
SHAEF revises plans for the attack
SHAEF's air problems, January-June 1944
Relations with the occupied countries
Final preparations for the invasion
D Day to the breakout
The breakout and pursuit to the Seine
The campaign in Southern France
Relations with the French, June-September 1944
The pursuit stops short of the Rhine
Command reorganization, June-October 1944
Fighting in the North
The battles of attrition, September-December 1944
Relations with liberated countries
Program for Germany
The winter counteroffensives
The Battle for the Rhineland
The Battle for the Ruhr
The drive to the Elbe
The drive to the Elbe (continued)
The German surrender
The last phase
"Europe and the Near East [map] compiled and drawn in the Cartographic Section of the National Geographic Society," fold., in pocket
"Document for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, cloth, $6.50."
"Europe and the Near East [map] compiled and drawn in the Cartographic Section of the National Geographic Society," fold., in pocket.