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Index
Cover
About the Author
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Preface
Maps: (By Rafael Palacios)
BOOK ONE
The First Two Years
PART I: WASHINGTON TO LONDON
[December 1941—June 1942]
Chapter 1: DEBACLE IN THE PACIFIC
Chapter 2: ESTABLISHING THE ORGANIZATION AND THE STRATEGY
Chapter 3: “BOLERO”: THE BUILD-UP IN ENGLAND
PART II: LONDON TO GIBRALTAR
[June 1942—December 1942]
Chapter 4: THE THEATER COMMANDER
Chapter 5: THE BLACKEST DAY IN HISTORY
Chapter 6: THE TRANSATLANTIC ESSAY CONTEST
Chapter 7: PREPARING THE “TORCH”
Chapter 8: THE INVASION OF NORTH AFRICA
Chapter 9: THE DARLAN DEAL
Chapter 10: THE FIRST CAMPAIGN
PART III: OPENING THE MEDITERRANEAN
[January 1943—July 1943]
Chapter 11: CONFERENCE AT CASABLANCA
Chapter 12: KASSERINE PASS
Chapter 13: CLIMAX IN TUNISIA
Chapter 14: THE LOCAL POLITICAL MESS
Chapter 15: PREPARING “HUSKY”: MARCH—JULY 1943
Chapter 16: SICILY
PART IV: THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN
[July 1943—December 1943]
Chapter 17: THE BEGINNING
Chapter 18: THE ITALIAN SURRENDER NEGOTIATIONS
Chapter 19: SALERNO
Chapter 20: STALEMATE IN ITALY
Chapter 21: THE BIG APPOINTMENT
Chapter 22: PREPARING FOR “OVERLORD”
Chapter 23: EPILOGUE: EISENHOWER ON THE EVE OF “OVERLORD”
BOOK TWO
Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force
PART I: THE PREPARATION
[January 1944—June 1944]
Chapter 1: “WE CANNOT AFFORD TO FAIL”
Chapter 2: THE “ANVIL” DEBATE
Chapter 3: THE TRANSPORTATION PLAN
Chapter 4: LE GRAND CHARLES AND OTHER POLITICAL PROBLEMS
Chapter 5: WORRIES OF A COMMANDER
PART II: THE INVASION
[June 1944—September 1944]
Chapter 6: THE SIXTH OF JUNE
Chapter 7: STALEMATE
Chapter 8: “CROSSBOW” AND “ANVIL” AGAIN
Chapter 9: BREAKOUT
Chapter 10: THE LIBERATION OF PARTS
Chapter 11: CROSSING THE SEINE AND A NEW COMMAND STRUCTURE
PART III: THE GERMAN RECOVERY
[September 1944—December 1944]
Chapter 12: ARNHEM AND ANTWERP
Chapter 13: SINGLE THRUST VS. BROAD FRONT IN RETROSPECT
Chapter 14: A DREARY AUTUMN
Chapter 15: THE BULGE
Chapter 16: SHOWDOWN WITH MONTGOMERY, DE GAULLE, AND BROOKE
Chapter 17: DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
PART IV: THE LAST CAMPAIGN
[January 1945—May 1945]
Chapter 18: THE RHINELAND BATTLES
Chapter 19: CROSSING THE RHINE AND A CHANGE IN PLAN
Chapter 20: CONTROVERSY WITH THE BRITISH
Chapter 21: VICTORY
GLOSSARY
NOTE
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