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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... Fleet Air Arm's own Seafire aircraft ) were in direct contact with their allocated ships.90 For example , HMS Glasgow , the British cruiser firing on St Laurent behind Easy Green Beach on Omaha , was in regular contact with its spotter ...
... Fleet Air Arm's own Seafire aircraft ) were in direct contact with their allocated ships.90 For example , HMS Glasgow , the British cruiser firing on St Laurent behind Easy Green Beach on Omaha , was in regular contact with its spotter ...
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... fleet . So poor was his knowledge of Britain that he insisted that there were men to be bought in Glasgow for ' a litre of wine ' . Nevertheless the Germans trusted him and his German controller , Karl Erich Kühlenthal , wrote to him in ...
... fleet . So poor was his knowledge of Britain that he insisted that there were men to be bought in Glasgow for ' a litre of wine ' . Nevertheless the Germans trusted him and his German controller , Karl Erich Kühlenthal , wrote to him in ...
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... fleet safe from the 155mm guns that were allegedly in place at the Pointe du Hoc - the large ships began anchoring . The Pointe du Hoc was the priority target for the US 1st Army and it was known that at least two of ALLIED GROUND ...
... fleet safe from the 155mm guns that were allegedly in place at the Pointe du Hoc - the large ships began anchoring . The Pointe du Hoc was the priority target for the US 1st Army and it was known that at least two of ALLIED GROUND ...
Contents
Part Two Leadership and Wicked Problems | 19 |
Part Three Managing Tame Problems | 151 |
Part Four Commanding in Crises | 305 |
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29th Division Airborne Division aircraft Allied American Armoured Division artillery attack Badsey Balkoski Battalion battery battle bluffs bombardment bombers bombing Botting Bradley Brigade Caen Calais Canadian captured casualties cent Chandler and Collins Churchill combat commanders Company Corps counter-attack D-Day DD tanks defenders destroyed destroyers DUKWs Eiler Eisenhower enemy fighter fighting fire forces France French glider Gold Beach Hitler Infantry Division invasion June Juno Juno Beach killed landing craft LCTs leadership Linderman London Luftwaffe machine guns miles military Montgomery move naval Neillands Normandy Normann officers Omaha Beach Operation Ouistreham Panzer Division paratroopers Pitcairn-Jones Pointe du Hoc Quoted in Ambrose Quoted in Blandford Quoted in Collier Quoted in Delaforce Quoted in Kilvert-Jones Quoted in Linderman Rangers Regiment rifle Rommel Royal Rundstedt Ryan Sergeant shells Sherman ships soldiers St Lô strategy suggested Sword Beach target troops units Utah Utah Beach vehicles Wehrmacht Wicked Problem