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 247
... original thought . 61 What did appear to be original , though , was Churchill's addition to a note concerning the ' piers ' by the Chief of Combined Operations , dated 30 May 1942 : They must float up and down with the tide . The anchor ...
... original thought . 61 What did appear to be original , though , was Churchill's addition to a note concerning the ' piers ' by the Chief of Combined Operations , dated 30 May 1942 : They must float up and down with the tide . The anchor ...
Page 397
... original D - Day 900 soldiers left . One platoon had just three of the original 41 left . Even then Gerhardt was uncompromising in his determination to hold on to St Lô once it had been won . As the German's 3rd Fallschirmjäger Division ...
... original D - Day 900 soldiers left . One platoon had just three of the original 41 left . Even then Gerhardt was uncompromising in his determination to hold on to St Lô once it had been won . As the German's 3rd Fallschirmjäger Division ...
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... original emphasis . 52. Quoted in Holt and Holt , 1999 : 108 . 53. Graham , 1999 : 159 . 54. Whitehouse and Bennett , 1995 : 28 ; Ellis , 1993 : 90 ; Blackburn , 1998 : 102. From August 1941 , with Soviet collapse assumed to be just ...
... original emphasis . 52. Quoted in Holt and Holt , 1999 : 108 . 53. Graham , 1999 : 159 . 54. Whitehouse and Bennett , 1995 : 28 ; Ellis , 1993 : 90 ; Blackburn , 1998 : 102. From August 1941 , with Soviet collapse assumed to be just ...
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