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Leadership, management and command : rethinking D-Day

The author argues that the successes and failures of D-Day, on both sides, cannot be explained simply 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
eBook, English, 2008
Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, Hampshire, 2008
History
1 online resource (viii, 503 pages) : illustrations, maps
9780230590502, 0230590500
314766381
PART ONE: LEADERSHIP, MANAGEMENT AND COMMAND AT D-DAY:
Problems, Understanding and Decision-Making
PART TWO: LEADERSHIP & WICKED PROBLEMS
Western Allied Strategy: the Boxer and the Karateka
Allied Air Strategy
Planning to Mislead
German Strategy- Hard Shell, Soft Shell
Allied Ground Strategy
PART THREE: MANAGING TAME PROBLEMS
Mobilizing the Anglo-Canadians, the Commonwealth, and the Volunteers
Mobilizing the Americans
Technology and the Iceberg
Mobilizing the Germans: The Wehrmacht and the SS
Managing Logistics
'Bag, vomit, one.'
Technologies
PART FOUR: COMMANDING IN CRISES
Commanding
The Airborne Assaults
Amphibious Landings
PART FIVE: RETROSPECTIVE
Post-D-Day
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010