The Supreme Command / by Pogue, Forrest C.

Table of Contents: “…Biographical sketches -- The supreme commander -- The coalition command -- The nature of SHAEF -- The machinery of SHAEF -- Planning before SHAEF -- SHAEF revises plans for the attack -- SHAEF's air problems, January-June 1944 -- Relations with the occupied countries -- Final preparations for the invasion -- D Day to the breakout -- The breakout and pursuit to the Seine -- The campaign in southern France -- Relations with the French, June-September 1944 -- The pursuit stops short of the Rhine -- Command reorganization, June-October 1944 -- Fighting in the north -- The battles of attrition, September-December 1944 -- Relations with liberated countries -- Program for Germany -- The winter counteroffensives -- The battle for the Rhineland -- The battle for the Ruhr -- The drive to the Elbe -- The drive to the Elbe (continued) -- The German surrender -- The last phase.…”

The Supreme Command / by Pogue, Forrest C.

Table of Contents: “…The Supreme Commander -- The Coalition Command -- The nature of SHAEF -- The machinery of SHAEF -- Planning before SHAEF -- SHAEF revises plans for the attack -- SHAEF's air problems, January-June 1944 -- Relations with the occupied countries -- Final preparations for the invasion -- D Day to the breakout -- The breakout and pursuit to the Seine -- The campaign in Southern France -- Relations with the French, June-September 1944 -- The pursuit stops short of the Rhine -- Command reorganization, June-October 1944 -- Fighting in the North -- The battles of attrition, September-December 1944 -- Relations with liberated countries -- Program for Germany -- The winter counteroffensives -- The Battle for the Rhineland -- The Battle for the Ruhr -- The drive to the Elbe -- The drive to the Elbe (continued) -- The German surrender -- The last phase.…”

The Supreme Command / by Pogue, Forrest C.

Table of Contents: “…The supreme commander -- The coalition command -- The nature of SHAEF -- The machinery of SHAEF -- Planning before SHAEF -- SHAEF revises plans for the attack -- SHAEF's air problems, January-June 1944 -- Relations with the occupied countries -- Final preparations for the invasion -- D Day to the breakout -- The breakout and pursuit to the Seine -- The campaign in southern France -- Relations with the French, June-September 1944 -- The pursuit stops short of the Rhine -- Command reorganization, June-October 1944 -- Fighting in the north -- The battles of attrition, September-December 1944 -- Relations with liberated countries -- Program for Germany -- The winter counteroffensives -- The battle for the Rhineland -- The battle for the Ruhr -- The drive to the Elbe -- The drive to the Elbe (continued) -- The German surrender -- The last phase.…”

Pogue's war : diaries of a WWII combat historian / by Pogue, Forrest C.

Table of Contents: “…London in the spring of 1944 -- We learn top secrets or we are bigoted -- Waiting in Cornwall -- Crossing the Channel one day late -- The Lieutenant John Spaulding interview -- First days in the field -- First interviews in the field -- The last weeks of June -- Writing history for a change -- The breakout at Saint-Lô -- Restless days at the rear -- Liberated Paris -- Last Days in Normandy -- Watching Paris come to life -- Opinion and politics in liberated Paris -- Return to the field -- The deadly forest -- The North flank of the bulge -- Regaining lost ground -- Battle for the dam -- The close-up to the Rhine -- Chasing the armor across Germany -- Another form of German culture: Buchenwald -- A non-sober history of the meeting with the Russians -- Pilzen on VE-Day.…”
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