Leadership, Management and Command: Rethinking D-DayThe author argues that the successes and failures of D-Day, on both sides, cannot be explained by comparing the competing strategies of each side. Instead he provides an account of the battle through the overarching nature of the relationship between the leaders and their followers. |
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... Canadians , the Commonwealth , and the Volunteers 8 Mobilizing the Americans : Technology and the Iceberg 9 Mobilizing the Germans : the Wehrmacht and the SS 10 Managing Logistics : ' Bag , vomit , one . ' 11 Technologies Part Four ...
... Canadians , the Commonwealth , and the Volunteers 8 Mobilizing the Americans : Technology and the Iceberg 9 Mobilizing the Germans : the Wehrmacht and the SS 10 Managing Logistics : ' Bag , vomit , one . ' 11 Technologies Part Four ...
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... Canadian account of the war : The allied operations were better co - ordinated at the supreme command level than were the German ; but one cannot say that of events on the battle field . There the German soldiers and their troop ...
... Canadian account of the war : The allied operations were better co - ordinated at the supreme command level than were the German ; but one cannot say that of events on the battle field . There the German soldiers and their troop ...
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... Canadian Army in Britain , then numbering 150,000 and deployed primarily on anti - invasion duties , was chosen to lead the way . The choice of Canadians had more to do with political than military requirements for the Canadian Prime ...
... Canadian Army in Britain , then numbering 150,000 and deployed primarily on anti - invasion duties , was chosen to lead the way . The choice of Canadians had more to do with political than military requirements for the Canadian Prime ...
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... Canadian unit commander use his initiative since this itself might undermine the guarantee of success . In fact , Major - General J.H. Roberts , the Canadian CO , was quite optimistic about the whole affair , for ' The plan is good ...
... Canadian unit commander use his initiative since this itself might undermine the guarantee of success . In fact , Major - General J.H. Roberts , the Canadian CO , was quite optimistic about the whole affair , for ' The plan is good ...
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... Canadian infantry assaults in the centre . The fire of the defenders ' guns decimated the first waves of the Royal Regiment of Canada , and naval officers with drawn pistols forced the second waves out of the landing craft to certain ...
... Canadian infantry assaults in the centre . The fire of the defenders ' guns decimated the first waves of the Royal Regiment of Canada , and naval officers with drawn pistols forced the second waves out of the landing craft to certain ...
Contents
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Part Three Managing Tame Problems | 151 |
Part Four Commanding in Crises | 305 |
Part Five Retrospective | 416 |
Notes | 429 |
Bibliography | 484 |
Index | 493 |
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12th SS 29th Division Airborne Division aircraft Allied American amphibious Anglo-Canadian Armoured Division artillery attack Badsey Balkoski Battalion battery battle bombardment bombers bombing Bradley Britain British Army Caen Calais Canadian captured casualties cent Chandler and Collins Cherbourg Churchill coast combat commanders Company Corps counter-attack D-Day DD tanks defenders Delaforce destroyed destroyers DUKWs E-boats Eisenhower enemy fighter fighting fire France French German army glider Gold Beach Hitler Infantry Division invasion June Juno Juno Beach killed Kilvert-Jones landing craft LCTs LCVPs leaders leadership Linderman Luftwaffe machine guns managed miles military million Montgomery move naval Navy Neillands Normandy Normann officers Omaha Beach Operation Overlord Panzer Division paratroopers Pitcairn-Jones Pointe du Hoc Ramsey Regiment rifle Rommel Royal Rundstedt Sergeant shells Sherman ships shot soldiers Soviet squadrons St Lô strategy success suggested Sword Beach target troops units Utah Utah Beach vehicles weapons Wehrmacht Wicked Problem