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The Chief of Staff: The Military Career of General Walter ...

Daniel K. R. Crosswell

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publkation Data Crosswell, D.K.R. (Daniel K. R.) The chief of staff : the military career of General Walter Bedell Smith / D.K.R. Crosswell. p. cm.— (Contributions in military studies, ISSN 0883-6884 ; no .

Generals of the Bulge: Leadership in the U.S. Army's ...

Jerry D. Morelock

D. K. R. Crosswell, Beetle: The Life of General Walter Bedell Smith (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2010), 1–5, 39. Although in his superb biography of “Beetle” Smith, Crosswell challenges the “received wisdom” of the “' good ...

Chief of Staff, Vol. 2: The Principal Officers Behind ...

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... leaving an estate inexcess of$2.5 million,earnedin the six years since his retirement.He was buried near General Marshallin ArlingtonCemetery. 15 Notes 1. D. K.R.Crosswell, TheChief of Staff: The MilitaryCareer of GeneralWalter Bedell ...

Snow and Steel: The Battle of the Bulge, 1944-45

Peter Caddick-Adams

D. K. R. Crosswell, Beetle. The Life of General Walter Bedell Smith (University Press of Kentucky, 2010), p. 807. 3. Captain Harry C. Butcher, My Three Years With Eisenhower (William Heinemann, 1946), p. 611. 4. The Pavillon Henri IV, built ...

A Companion to Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Walter Bedell Smith, Eisenhower's chief of staff during the war, D. K. R. Crosswell argues that Eisenhower lost control of the strategic direction of the war in North Africa, relying heavily on his British air, land, and sea commanders. In his first ...

Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life

Carlo D'Este

Charles L. Bolte oral history, EL.) 32. Pogue, George C. Marshall: Ordeal and Hope, 408. 33. Arthur Nevins oral history, EL. 34. D. K. R. Crosswell, The Chief of Staff (Westport, Conn., 1991), 105. 35. The Memoirs of Lord Ismay (London, 1960 ), ...

Beetle: The Life of General Walter Bedell Smith

D.K.R. Crosswell

28. Peyton March, Nation at War (New York, 1932), 40, 48–49, 226–27. 29. Historical Division, Order of Battle: Zone of the Interior, 43. 30. Edward Coffman, “ The Battle against Red Tape: Business Methods of the War Department General Staff, ...