Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Part One: Epilogue as Prologue—Soldier, Diplomat, Spymaster

1. Soldier Turned Diplomat

2. Expecting the Worst

3. Dulles’s Number Two

4. The Geneva Conference

5. “Ike’s Prat Boy”

Part Two: Officership in the Army of the “Long Generation,” 1917–1939

6. Born to Be a Soldier

7. The Summons to War

8. “They Don’t Make ‘Em Any Better than Smith”

9. “Expunge the Bunk, Complications and Ponderosities”

10. The Other Class Stars Fell On

11. “No One Ever Graduates”

Part Three: The Towering Figure—George C. Marshall

12. The Chief’s Apprentice

13. Forging the Mold

14. “Exceptionally Qualified for Service as Chief of Staff”

Part Four: The Mediterranean Campaign

15. “Smith Will Save Ike”

16. “We Are on the Threshold of a Magnificent Success”

17. “Thank God You Are in London”

18. “We Shall Continue to Flounder”

19. “Allies Are Very Difficult People to Fight With”

20. The Many Travails of an Allied Chief of Staff

21. The Road to Messina

22. The Italian Job

23. “A Feeling of Restrained Optimism”

24. “We Conduct Our Wars in a Most Curious Way”

Part Five: France 1944

25. The Supreme Command

26. “Enough to Drive You Mad”

27. “It’s a Go”

28. Normandy Deadlock

29. What Has the Supreme Command Amounted To?

30. End the War in ‘44

31. “The Logistical Bottleneck Now Dictates Strategy”

32. Après le Déluge

Part Six: The Victory Campaign

33. One Desperate Blow

34. Déjà Vu All over Again

35. The German Is a Whipped Enemy

36. Mission Fulfilled

1. Marshall’s Reorganized War Department General Staff

2. AFHQ Command and Staff Structure

3. SHAEF Command and Staff Structure

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