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Beetle = the life of general Walter Bedell Smith /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Beetle/ D.K.R. Crosswell.
Reminder of title:	the life of general Walter Bedell Smith /
Author:	Crosswell, D. K. R.
Published:	Lexington :University Press of Kentucky, : c2010.,
Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 1070 p.) :maps.
[NT 15003449]:	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 campaign. "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 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.
Subject:	Statesmen - Biography - United States -
Subject:	United States - Economic policy - 1981-1993 -
Online resource:	http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813126500/Full text available:
ISBN:	9780813126500 (electronic bk.)

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

Beetlethe life of general Walter Bedell Smith /[electronic resource] :D.K.R. Crosswell. - Lexington :University Press of Kentucky,c2010. - 1 online resource (xvii, 1070 p.) :maps. - American warriors. - American warriors (Lexington, Ky.).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 1045-1052) and index.

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 campaign. "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 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.

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.

ISBN: 9780813126500 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Personal Names:

1985867
Smith, Walter Bedell,
1895-1961.Subjects--Corporate Names:

702934
United States.
Army--BiographySubjects--Topical Terms:

1281376
Statesmen
--United States--BiographySubjects--Geographical Terms:

554129
United States
--Economic policy--1981-1993

LC Class. No.: E745.S57 / C75 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 355.0092

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