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...Struggle for Europe, by Chester Wilmot. An exceptionally well-written history of World War II, by an Englishman provocatively critical of U.S. generalship and diplomacy (TIME, March...
...Struggle for Europe, by Chester Wilmot. An exceptionally well-written history of World War,II by an Englishman provocatively critical of U.S. generalship and diplomacy (TIME, March...
...generalship, particularly that of Eisenhower and Bradley, was generally unimaginative and costly, and prolonged the war by insisting on a broad front in Europe. Montgomery could have won the war with one massive strike for the Ruhr after the Normandy breakout...
Stalin's Architects. What Bradley and Patton did in Normandy and after, says Wilmot, was made possible by Montgomery's canny generalship around Caen that enabled the Americans to break out. Only occasionally is Monty chided for caution; in the end his virtues completely swamp his faults. Bradley gets sterner treatment. Heavy U.S. casualties during the Normandy landings, says Wilmot, were largely the result of Bradley's refusal to use British-invented armored weapons and machines that helped cut British losses to a minimum. Bradley declined to use the British "Crabs" (flailing tanks that could smash...
...East. Through Yalta, Unconditional Surrender, and the green light to Stalin in Central Europe, thinks Wilmot, the West gave Stalin what it had denied to Hitler. The Struggle for Europe will convince a lot of readers that Hitler's blunders contributed as much as Allied generalship did to the winning of the war; it is almost equally persuasive in its argument that the Allied leaders were the unwitting architects of Stalin's postwar world...