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Beetle : the life of general Walter Bedell Smith

[NT 42944] Record Type:	[NT 8598] Electronic resources : [NT 40817] monographic
[NT 47348] Title Information:	the life of general Walter Bedell Smith
[NT 47261] Author:	CrosswellD. K. R.,
[NT 47356] Secondary Intellectual Responsibility:	Project Muse
[NT 47351] Place of Publication:	Lexington
[NT 47263] Published:	University Press of Kentucky;
[NT 47352] Year of Publication:	c2010
[NT 47264] Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 1070 p.)maps. :
[NT 47298] Series:	American warriors
[NT 47266] Subject:	Statesmen - Biography - United States -
[NT 47266] Subject:	Generals - Biography - United States -
[NT 47266] Subject:	United States - History, Military - 20th century -
[NT 51399] Personal Subject:	Smith - Walter Bedell -
[NT 51458] Online resource:	http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813126500/
[NT 47265] Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 1045-1052) and index
[NT 51398] Summary:	The first full biography of Smith, a fascinating American soldier and diplomat who began his career in 1911 as a private in the Indiana National Guard, and retired as a four-star general
[NT 50961] ISBN:	9780813126500electronic bk.
[NT 50961] ISBN:	9780813126494hbk.
[NT 50961] ISBN:	0813126495hbk.
[NT 60779] Content Note:	Epilogue as prologue : soldier, diplomat, spymaster. Soldier turned diplomat ; Expecting the worse ; Dulles's number two ; The Geneva Conference ; "Ike's prat boy" -- Officership in the army ofthe "long generation," 1917-1939. Born to be a soldier ; The summons to war ; "They don't make 'em any better than Smith" ; "Expunge the bunk, complications, and ponderosities" ; The other class stars fell on ; "No one ever graduates" -- The towering figure : George C. Marshall. The chief's apprentice ; Forging the mold ; "Exceptionally qualified for service as Chief of Staff" -- The Mediterranean clmpaign. "Smith will save Ike" ; "We areon the threshold of a magnificent success" ; "Thank God you are in London" ; "We shall continue to flounder" ; "Allies are very difficult people to fight with" ; The many travails of an Allied Chief of Staff ; The road to Messina ; The Italian job ; "A feeling of restrained optimism" ; "We conduct our wars in a most curious way" -- France 1944. The Supreme Command ; "Enough to drive you mad" ; "It's go" ; Normandy deadlock ; What has the Supreme Command amounted to? ; End the War in '44 ; "The logistical bottleneck now dictates strategy" ; Apres le deluge -- The victory clmpaign. One desperate blow ; Dejà vu all over again ; The German is a whipped enemy ; Mission fulfilled -- Appendixes. Marshall's reorganized War Department General Staff ; AFHQ command and staff structure ; SHAEF command and staff structure

Beetle : the life of general Walter Bedell Smith
Crosswell, D. K. R.

Beetle : the life of general Walter Bedell Smith / D.K.R. Crosswell - Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2010. - 1 online resource (xvii, 1070 p.) ; maps.. - (American warriors).
Epilogue as prologue : soldier, diplomat, spymaster. Soldier turned diplomat ; Expecting the worse ; Dulles's number two ; The Geneva Conference ; "Ike's prat boy" -- Officership in the army ofthe "long generation," 1917-1939. Born to be a soldier ; The summons to war ; "They don't make 'em any better than Smith" ; "Expunge the bunk, complications, and ponderosities" ; The other class stars fell on ; "No one ever graduates" -- The towering figure : George C. Marshall. The chief's apprentice ; Forging the mold ; "Exceptionally qualified for service as Chief of Staff" -- The Mediterranean clmpaign. "Smith will save Ike" ; "We areon the threshold of a magnificent success" ; "Thank God you are in London" ; "We shall continue to flounder" ; "Allies are very difficult people to fight with" ; The many travails of an Allied Chief of Staff ; The road to Messina ; The Italian job ; "A feeling of restrained optimism" ; "We conduct our wars in a most curious way" -- France 1944. The Supreme Command ; "Enough to drive you mad" ; "It's go" ; Normandy deadlock ; What has the Supreme Command amounted to? ; End the War in '44 ; "The logistical bottleneck now dictates strategy" ; Apres le deluge -- The victory clmpaign. One desperate blow ; Dejà vu all over again ; The German is a whipped enemy ; Mission fulfilled -- Appendixes. Marshall's reorganized War Department General Staff ; AFHQ command and staff structure ; SHAEF command and staff structure.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 1045-1052) and index.
ISBN 9780813126500ISBN 9780813126494ISBN 0813126495
StatesmenGenerals -- Biography -- Biography -- United States -- United States

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