Generals In The Making
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Generals In The Making
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Author : Benjamin Runkle
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2019-07-26
Generals In The Making written by Benjamin Runkle and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-26 with History categories.
Shakespeare famously wrote that some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Part military history and part group biography, Generals in the Making tells the amazing true story of how George Marshall, Dwight Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, George Patton, and their peers became the greatest generation of senior commanders in military history. As the U.S. Army’s triumphant homecoming from World War I was quickly forgotten amidst two decades filled with economic depression and growing isolationism, Marshall, Eisenhower, MacArthur, Patton, Omar Bradley, Lucian Truscott, Matthew Ridgway, and their brothers in arms toiled in a profession most Americans viewed with distrust. Before they became legends, these young officers served their country in posts from Washington D.C. to Panama, from West Point to war-torn China. They taught and studied together in the Army’s schools, attempting to innovate in an era of shrinking budgets, obsolete equipment, and skeletal forces. Beyond these professional challenges, they endured shattering personal tragedies: the sudden deaths of children or spouses, divorce, depression, and court martial. Yet when the world faced possibly its darkest hour, as fascism and barbarism were on the march, they stood ready to lead America’s young men in the fight for civilization. By the end of World War II, even German commanders expressed amazement at the dynamic change in American military leadership since the Great War. Generals in the Making is the first comprehensive history of America’s World War II generals between the wars, an invaluable prequel to every history of that war.
Danjuma
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Author : Lindsay Barrett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Danjuma written by Lindsay Barrett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Generals categories.
Patton S Drive
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Author : Alan Axelrod
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2010-10-05
Patton S Drive written by Alan Axelrod and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Patton's Drive tells the story of how a young man born to war—who believed himself the literal incarnation of all great warriors past—became a modern American general: in terms of enemy killed or captured, territory taken, and people liberated, the greatest field commander of World War II.
Judges And Generals In The Making Of Modern Egypt
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Author : Mahmoud Hamad
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-10-25
Judges And Generals In The Making Of Modern Egypt written by Mahmoud Hamad and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-25 with History categories.
Discusses why and how the Egyptian judiciary was critically important in bringing down two vastly different regimes in three years.
What Are Generals Made Of
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Author : Aubrey S. Newman
language : en
Publisher: Presidio Press
Release Date : 1987
What Are Generals Made Of written by Aubrey S. Newman and has been published by Presidio Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Political Science categories.
Drawing on his own experiences of a lifetime in the Army, the author provides insight into military life at its most important levels, discussing the challenge of leadership and outlining a pattern for a successful commander to follow
U S Grant
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Author : Michael B. Ballard
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2005
U S Grant written by Michael B. Ballard and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
What made Ulysses S. Grant tick? Perhaps the greatest general of the Civil War, Grant won impressive victories and established a brilliant military career. His single-minded approach to command was coupled with the ability to adapt to the kind of military campaign the moment required. In this exciting new book, Michael B. Ballard provides a crisp account of Grant's strategic and tactical concepts in the period from the outset of the Civil War to the battle of Chattanooga--a period in which U. S. Grant rose from a semi-disgraceful obscurity to the position of overall commander of all Union armies. The author carefully sifts through diaries and letters of Grant and his inner circle to try to get inside Grant's mind and reveal why those early years of the war were formative in producing the Civil War's greatest general.
Too Important For The Generals
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Author : Allan Mallinson
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2016-06-02
Too Important For The Generals written by Allan Mallinson and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-02 with History categories.
‘War is too important to be left to the generals’ snapped future French prime minister Georges Clemenceau on learning of yet another bloody and futile offensive on the Western Front. One of the great questions in the ongoing discussions and debate about the First World War is why did winning take so long and exact so appalling a human cost? After all this was a fight that, we were told, would be over by Christmas. Now, in his major new history, Allan Mallinson, former professional soldier and author of the acclaimed 1914: Fight the Good Fight, provides answers that are disturbing as well as controversial, and have a contemporary resonance. He disputes the growing consensus among historians that British generals were not to blame for the losses and setbacks in the ‘war to end all wars’ – that, given the magnitude of their task, they did as well anyone could have. He takes issue with the popular view that the ‘amateur’ opinions on strategy of politicians such as Lloyd George and, especially, Winston Churchill, prolonged the war and increased the death toll. On the contrary, he argues, even before the war began Churchill had a far more realistic, intelligent and humane grasp of strategy than any of the admirals or generals, while very few senior officers – including Sir Douglas Haig – were up to the intellectual challenge of waging war on this scale. And he repudiates the received notion that Churchill’s stature as a wartime prime minister after 1940 owes much to the lessons he learned from his First World War ‘mistakes’ – notably the Dardanelles campaign – maintaining that in fact Churchill’s achievement in the Second World War owes much to the thwarting of his better strategic judgement by the ‘professionals’ in the First – and his determination that this would not be repeated. Mallinson argues that from day one of the war Britain was wrong-footed by absurdly faulty French military doctrine and paid, as a result, an unnecessarily high price in casualties. He shows that Lloyd George understood only too well the catastrophically dysfunctional condition of military policy-making and struggled against the weight of military opposition to fix it. And he asserts that both the British and the French failed to appreciate what the Americans’ contribution to victory could be – and, after the war, to acknowledge fully what it had actually been.
The New Bonapartist Generals In The Crimean War
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Author : Brison D. Gooch
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-12-06
The New Bonapartist Generals In The Crimean War written by Brison D. Gooch and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with History categories.
This book is based on published correspondence. Thus it stands in debt to the scores of persons who have edited and selected the material referred to in the notes as well as to the authors of the letters themselves. Literal translation from the French has been this writer's responsibility. The research was done in library collections at the University of Wisconsin, Yale University, and Harvard University. Personal thanks are due to Professor Emeritus Chester Penn Higby at Wisconsin who encouraged my early interest in the Crimean War and to Professor Chester V. Easum, also of Wisconsin, for under standing and assistance at a time when both were sorely needed. The typing of various stages of the manuscript was done by the secretarial staff of the Humanities Department at the Massa chusetts Institute of Technology, and also by my wife, Dorothy, whose patient efforts in this project have been considerable. While this book has something to say to the professional historian, I hope that the general reader may also find interest in these ambitious officers and their emperor.
Making Of A General
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Making Of A General written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.
Marshal Of Victory
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Author : Geogry Zhukov
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2014-01-13
Marshal Of Victory written by Geogry Zhukov and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The complete and unredacted autobiography by Stalin’s star general, chronicling his many campaigns throughout WWII. At Moscow, Leningrad, Stalingrad, Kursk and Berlin—as well as virtually all the principal battles on the Eastern Front during the Second World War—Georgy Zhukov played a major role. He was Stalin’s pre-eminent general throughout the conflict, and he chronicled his brilliant career as he saw it in this essential text. Here, Zhukov reveals intriguing insights into who he was, both as a man and as a commander. He also delves into the military thinking and decision-making at the highest level of the Soviet command—making this volume essential reading for anyone studying the conflict in the east. This edition of the memoirs, which were first published in heavily censored form, features an introduction by Professor Geoffrey Roberts in which he summarizes the additional material omitted from previous editions. He also provides, in an appendix, a translation of Zhukov’s account of the 1953-7 period as well as an interview with Zhukov that has previously not been available in English.