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Pre-invasion bombing strategy : General Eisenhower's decision of March 25, 1944
- Title
- Pre-invasion bombing strategy : General Eisenhower's decision of March 25, 1944 / W.W. Rostow.
- Author
- Rostow, W. W. (Walt Whitman), 1916-2003
- Publication
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 1981.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 166 pages; 22 cm.
- Series Statement
- Ideas and action series ; no. 1
- Rostow, W. W. (Walt Whitman), 1916-2003. Ideas and action series ; no. 1.
- Subject
- Eisenhower, Dwight D. 1890-1969
- Eisenhower, Dwight D. 1890-1969
- 1939-1945
- Geschichte 1944
- Operation Overlord
- World War, 1939-1945 > Destruction and pillage > Germany
- World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations
- World War, 1939-1945 > Economic aspects > Germany
- Deployment (Strategy)
- Opération Overlord
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Destruction et pillage > Allemagne
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Opérations aériennes
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Aspect économique > Allemagne
- Déploiement (Stratégie)
- Destruction and pillage
- Economics
- Military operations, Aerial
- Luftangriff
- Zweiter Weltkrieg
- Tweede Wereldoorlog
- Germany
- Deutschland
- Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The apparent choices and the decision -- Zuckerman's theory : the strategic attack on transport for tactical purposes -- EOU and its doctrine -- The winning of daylight air supremacy over Germany -- The choice of oil and its initial defeat -- EOU goes tactical -- The arena of decision : power, vested interest, and personality -- How oil and bridges got in -- The neoclassical period : September 1944-May 1945 -- A few conclusions -- Appendix A : Final minutes of the March 25 meeting -- Appendix B : The EOU doctrine : four memoranda -- Appendix C : Spaatz-Eisenhower memorandum of March 31, 1944 -- Appendix D : Report on the May 7, 1944, destruction of the bridge at Vernon -- Appendix E : Bombing policy on the eve of the Battle of the Bulge : memorandum of W.W. Rostow, December 6, 1944 -- Appendix F : German rail movement in France in the first ten days after D-day : an interim report by Charles P. Kindleberger, June 16-19, 1944.
- ISBN
- 0292764707
- 9780292764705
- 0292764715
- 9780292764712
- LCCN
- 80028002
- OCLC
- ocm07171888
- 7171888
- SCSB-51047
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library