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Eisenhower's Lieutenants

The Campaigns of France and Germany, 1944-45
Russell F. Weigley
Distribution: World
Publication date: 6/1/1981
Format: paper 832 pages
6.625 x 9.25
ISBN: 978-0-253-20608-4
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"The publication of Eisenhower's Lieutenants is an event of significance in American military writing. . . . admirable . . . clearly the product of exhaustive, painstaking research." —The New York Times Book Review

" . . . the best account we have of the World War II campaigns from Normandy to the Elbe." —American Historical Review

" . . . precisely informative and broadly rewarding." —Kirkus Reviews

" . . . an outstanding and highly recommended work." —Journal of American History

" . . . by the dean of American military historians . . . " —Washington Post Bookworld



CONTENTS
Preface

Part One: The Armies

Part Two: Normandy

Part Three: France

Part Four: The Disputed Middle Ground

Part Five: Germany

Epilogue
Notes and Sources
Index

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Table of Contents

Preface

Part One: The Armies
1. The American Army
Mobility and Power
The Strategy of Power
2. Weapons and Divisions
The Tanks
Tank Killers
The Limits of American Manpower
Mobility and Power in Armor
Tanks for European Battle
The Infantry
The Germans
3. The View of the Far Shore
Amphibious Assault
The High Command
The Contentin and the Calvados
Some God-Damned Things Called LSTs
Neptune
Beyond the Beaches
Ultra
4. By Air and by Sea
Overlord and Air Power: Questions Strategic and Moral
The Vengeance Weapons
Bridge-Busting
Neptune Takes to the Air
Air and the Strategy of the Ground Armies
To Cross the Channel

Part Two: Normandy
5. The Beach
Omaha
General Bradley
The Question of American Military Skill and Experience
The Fight up from Omaha
Utah
The Defense
6. Cherbourg and Caumont
The Battle of the Cotentin
The Battle of the Buildup
The Caumont Gap
7. The Bocage
The Breakout Issue
Caen
Hostile Terrain and Armies
The Battle of the Cotentin Plain
Caen Again
The Birth of the Cobra
The Battle of St. Lo
8. Cobra
Goodwood
The Cobra Strikes
Breakout
Cobra Dissected
The Eastern Flank
9. The Crossroads South of Avranches
Pursuit
Turning the Corner
Brittany

Part Three: France
10. The Short Envelopment
The Battle of Mortain
The Battle of the Argentan-Falaise Pocket
Toward the Seine
The Battle of Chambois
11. The Riviera the the Rhone
Anvil-Dragoon
The Battle of Provence
The Battle of Montelimar
Consolidating a Mediterranean Base
Toward the Belfort Gap
12. The Seine
Patton and the Whole Art of War
The Long Envelopment
To Troyes, Fontainebleau, and Montereau
Paris
13. The Meuse
The Miracle of the West
The Vengeance Weapons Again
The Single Thrust
To Verdun and St. Mihiel
14. The Twin Tyrants: Logistics...
How Much and How Far?
The Mons Pocket
Strategy and Logistics
The Battle of Brest
15. ..and Time
The Field Marshal
Vertical Envelopment
Auguries
The Americans Reach the West Wall
Into the West Wall

Part Four: The Disputed Middle Ground
16. Holland
The Battle for Arnhem
Market-Garden Assessed
17. Attack in the Ardennes (I)
The First Battle of the Schnee Eifel
The Battle of Wallendorf
18. Lorraine (I)
Arnaville and Gravelotte
The Battle of Nancy
The Battle of Dompaire
The Battle of Arracourt
Patton in September
The Allied Right Flank
19. The Reich Frontiers
The Estuary of the Scheldt
The Balance of Strength
The Battle of Aachen
The First Battle of the Huertgen Forest
20. Autumn Interlude
Manpower
Guns and Shells
The Air Arm
21. Lorraine (II)
Metz and the Lorraine Gateway
From the Cote de Delme to Faulquemont
The Taking of La Pucelle
To the Sarre River
22. Alsace
Belfort and Strasbourg
The Battles of Rauwiller and Barendorf
Seventh Army to the Maginot Line and the West Wall
23. Huertgen Forest and Roer Plain
The Battle of the Hamich Corridor
The Second Battle of the Huertgen Forest
Into the Roer Plain
24. On the Eve of a Breakthrough
The Roer Dams
The Monschau Corridor
The Saar
Great Expectations
25. The Breakthrough
The Second Battle of the Schnee Eifel
The Skyline Drive
Paris, Luxembourg, and Spa
26. The Doctrinal Response
From the Our to the Wiltz
The Northeastern Shoulder
The Valley of the Ambleve
The Road Junctions
The Battle of St. Vith
27. The Precarious Balance
Stoumont and Stavelot
Patton into the Battle
Montgomery into an American Headquarters
28. The Battles of Christmastide
The Salm and the Ourthe
The Death Struggle of Kampfgruppe Peiper
The Battle of Bastogne
Patton’s March from Luxembourg
Reserves Weak and Strong
The Battle of Manhay
The Last Lunge toward Dinant
29. Attack in the Ardennes (II)
Counterattack or Counteroffensive
The Battle of the Bastogne Corridor
A Southern Diversion
The Destruciton of the Bulge
The Morning After
30. “Inadequate Means’
Reinforcements
Reserves
The Enemy at Bay

Part Five: Germany
31. The Eifel
Uncertainty in the High Command
Against Snow and the West Wall
The Battles of Prum and Bitburg
The Battle of Trier
32. Two Tumors Excised: Colmar and the Roer Dams
The Colmar Pocket
The Battle of the Roer Dams
Grenade at the Ready
33. To the Rhine
Grenade
Grenade Exploited—to a Point
The Battle of the Wesel Pocket
The Battle of the Cologne Plain
The Battle of the Hohe Eifel
34. The Crossing of the Rhine
Remagen
The Battle of the Remagen Bridgehead
The Battles of the Saar and the Palatinate
Montgomery’s Mighty Crossing (I)
Crossing on the Run
Montgomery’s Mighty Crossing (II)
35. Eastward from the Rhine
Varsity
The Battle of the Wesel Bridgehead
The Battle of the Rhine Gorge
The Hammelburg Affair
La Revanche
36. The Legions on the Rhine
Black Fighting Men
Unclogging the Replacement Pipeline
Pass the Ammunition
The Lines of Communication
Armies and Leaders
37. The Ruhr
Breakout from Remagen
The Envelopment
The Battle of the Ruhr Pocket
38. Berlin
The Decison of the Supreme Commander
To the Elbe
The Last River (I)
Flak Alley
The Last River (II)
39. The National Redoubt
The Battle of the Neckar
The Battle of Nurnberg
Patton Turns Southward
Troublesome Allies
Into the Redoubt
40. The Elbe, the Moldau, and the Brenner Pass
Strehla
To the Baltic Sea
Czechoslovakia
Surrender

Epilogue
Notes and Sources
Index