Eisenhower's Armies The American-British Alliance during World War II.epub

2015 | ISBN: 1605988162 | English | 544 pages | EPUB | 1 MB An authoritative and dramatic behind-the-scenes history of 'the Atlantic Alliance' during World War II.

A British military historian gives his informed take on how two allies--the U.S. and Great Britain--worked together as armies in the European theater of World War II. This is not a book to learn about the Russian contribution to the war, the German perspective, or the war in the Pacific.

Niall Barr starts with some interesting background to the special relationship that reaches back to the days of George Washington. He then focuses on the practical difficulties encountered in coming to a functioning unified command structure given the many differences between the two major allies, Differences in battle experience at the beginning, with the U.S. green and untested; differences in equipment; differences in culture; and so forth.

Dr. Barr views General Eisenhower as the person, who in the end, should be given credit for making the military alliance in Europe work in spite of the many headstrong and nationalistic battle commanders, including the difficult Field Marshal Montgomery. And he reminds us of what an usual thing it was to have two countries work together so closely at time of war.