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Title

Pioneers of amphibious warfare, 1898-1945 : profiles of fourteen American military strategists / Leo J. Daugherty, III.

Author

Daugherty, Leo J.

Publication

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2009.

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Description

ix, 446 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

"From the 1898 war with Spain through the disastrous 1915 Australian landing to the successful World War II assaults in the Pacific and northwest France, this chronological history explores the successes and failures pivotal to the concept of amphibious warfare through the lives and careers of fourteen officers instrumental to its development"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Amphibious warfare > History > 19th century
• Amphibious warfare > History > 20th century
• Strategy > History > 19th century
• Strategy > History > 20th century
• Military planning > United States > History > 19th century
• Military planning > United States > History > 20th century
• United States > Armed Forces > Biography

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-435) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. 1. The Era of the Advanced Base Force, 1880-1918 -- Colonel Robert W. Huntington, USMC -- Admiral William S. Sims, USN -- Major General George Barnett, USMC -- Major General Eli K. Cole, USMC -- pt. 2. The Interwar Years, 1919-1940 -- Brigadier General Dion Williams, USMC -- Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Austell Cunningham, USMC -- Lieutenant General John A. Lejeune, USMC -- Brigadier General Robert H. Dunlap, USMC -- Colonel Ellis B. Miller, USMC -- Major General John H. Russell, Jr., USMC -- pt. 3. The War Years, 1941-1945 -- Lieutenant General Pedro del Valle, USMC -- Rear Admiral Walter C. Ansel, USN -- Lieutenant General Arthur G. Trudeau, USA -- General George S. Patton, Jr., USA -- Appendix: Amphibious Assault Plans.

ISBN

9780786433940 (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009001325

OCLC

300718778

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library