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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Page 82
... U - boats to southern Norway for D - Day.5 Ironically no German forces were sent north during the apparent inva- sion of Normandy to defeat the illusory British 4th Army because German observation of Scotland was very limited . Indeed ...
... U - boats to southern Norway for D - Day.5 Ironically no German forces were sent north during the apparent inva- sion of Normandy to defeat the illusory British 4th Army because German observation of Scotland was very limited . Indeed ...
Page 242
... U - boats were still sinking more tonnage than the Allies could build every month , and the American Pacific forces attacking Japan had priority over their European forces attacking Germany for landing craft . The overall ship- ping ...
... U - boats were still sinking more tonnage than the Allies could build every month , and the American Pacific forces attacking Japan had priority over their European forces attacking Germany for landing craft . The overall ship- ping ...
Page 499
... boats 109 , 144 , 200 , 262 human torpedo 262 U - boats 40 , 100 , 124 , 144 , 242 , 248 officers German Military Supreme Command Oberkommando der Wehrmacht ( OKW ) 94-5 , 347 Operation Barbarossa 234 , 318 Panzer Lehr Division 108 ...
... boats 109 , 144 , 200 , 262 human torpedo 262 U - boats 40 , 100 , 124 , 144 , 242 , 248 officers German Military Supreme Command Oberkommando der Wehrmacht ( OKW ) 94-5 , 347 Operation Barbarossa 234 , 318 Panzer Lehr Division 108 ...
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