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Eisenhower's lieutenants : the campaign of France and Germany, 1944-1945

Includes material on "Field Marshal Montgomery and Ike's lieutenants--Omar N. Bradley, Jacob L. Devers, Courtney H. Hodges, George S. Patton, Jr., Alexander M. Patch, William H. Simpson, Leonard T. Gerow, J. Lawton Collins, and Matthew B. Ridgway, among others."
Print Book, English, ©1981
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, ©1981
collective biographies
xviii, 800 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780253133335, 0253133335
6863111
pt. 1. The armies. The American army
Weapons and divisions
The view of the far shore
By air and by sea
pt. 2. Normandy. The beach
Cherbourg and Caumont
The Bocage
Cobra
The crossroads south of Avranches
pt. 3. France. The short envelope
The Riviera and the Rhône
The Seine
The Meuse
The twin tyrants : logistics ..
... And time
pt. 4. The disputed middle ground. Holland
Attack in the Ardennes (I)
Lorraine (I)
The Reich frontiers
Autumn interlude
Lorraine (II)
Alsace
Huertgen Forest and Roer Plain
On the eve of a breakthrough
The breakthrough
The doctrinal response
The precarious balance
The battles of Christmastide
Attack in the Ardennes (II)
"Inadequate means"
pt. 5. The Eifel
Two tumors excised : Colmar and the Roer dams
To the Rhine
The crossing of the Rhine
Eastward from the Rhine
The legions on the Rhine
The Ruhr
Berlin
The national redoubt
The Elbe, the Moldau, and the Brenner Pass