‘THE WAR REPORTS of General of the Army George C. Marshall, (Chief of Staff); General of the Army H.H. Arnold, (Commanding General, Army Air Forces) [and] Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, (Commander-in-Chief, United States Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations’.
Published by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia & New York, 1947 (first edition).
Hardcover in the original unclipped dust jacket.
Large octavo, 801 pages with numerous illustrations and maps.
Foreword by Walter Millis.
The official wartime reports submitted by General George C. Marshall, General Henry H. Arnold and Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, the three senior American military leaders responsible for directing the United States Army, Army Air Forces and Navy during the World War Two.
GENERAL GEORGE C. MARSHALL:U.S. Army Chief of Staff throughout most of the Second World War, Marshall coordinated the enormous expansion of the American military and became one of the principal architects of Allied victory. He later served as Secretary of State and received the 1953 Nobel Peace Prize for the Marshall Plan.
GENERAL HENRY H. ARNOLD: Commanding General of the U.S. Army Air Forces during the Second World War, Arnold oversaw the rapid development of American air power and became one of only five officers to hold the rank of General of the Air Force.
FLEET ADMIRAL ERNEST J. KING: Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations during the war, King directed American naval strategy across both the Atlantic and Pacific theatres and remains one of the most influential naval commanders in U.S. history.
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