Forgotten
Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day’s Black Heroes, at Home and at War
By Linda Hervieux
Harper, 2015
353 pp. $27.99
ISBN: 978-0062313799
Reviewed by Bryon Greenwald |
12 марта 2017
Red Team
Red Team: How to Succeed by Thinking Like the Enemy
By Micah Zenko
Basic Books, 2015
338 pp. $16.00
ISBN: 978-0465048946
Reviewed by Matthew Cancian |
12 марта 2017
Leadership and Operational Art in World War II: The Case for General Lesley J. McNair
The U.S. Army’s reputation for effectiveness during World War II has not fared well over time, particularly regarding the European theater of operations. This is surprising given what the Army accomplished. Just to refresh the reader’s memory, the United States went to war with a small, impoverished Army that conducted maneuvers with wooden weapons and borrowed vehicles in the years leading up to World War II. Yet within 12 months of Germany declaring war on the United States, the Army invaded North Africa and knocked Vichy French forces out of the war. In another 12 months, it knocked Italy out of the war. And 12 months later, the Army was on the border of Germany, having just defeated Adolf Hitler’s last-gasp effort to stop the Allied onslaught |
12 марта 2017
