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Beetle the life of general Walter Bedell Smith
Title
Beetle [electronic resource] : the life of general Walter Bedell Smith / D.K.R. Crosswell.
ISBN
9780813126500
0813126495 (alk. paper)
9780813126494 (alk. paper)
Published
Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2010. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvii, 1070 p. :) maps ;
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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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.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2010 Current Complete Collection.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2010 History Collection.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2010-2012 Current Complete Collection Bundle.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 31, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 1045-1052) and index.
Contents
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 of the "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 campaign. "Smith will save Ike" ; "We are on 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 campaign. 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.
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