Pioneers of amphibious warfare, 1898-1945
Subtitle: profiles of fourteen American military strategists
By: Leo J. Daugherty, III.
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780786433940
Subjects: Amphibious warfare -- History -- 19th century; Amphibious warfare -- History -- 20th century; Strategy -- History -- 19th century; Strategy -- History -- 20th century; Military planning -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Military planning -- United States -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Armed Forces -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "From the 1898 war with Spain through the disastrous 1915 Australian landing to the successful assaults in the Pacific and northwest France during World War II, this chronological history explores the successes and failures pivotal to the concept of amphibious warfare through the lives and careers of fourteen officers instrumental to its development"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The Era of the Advanced Base Force, 1880-1918; title: Colonel Robert W. Huntington, USMC; title: Admiral William S. Sims, USN; title: Major General George Barnett, USMC; title: Major General Eli K. Cole, USMC; title: pt. 2. The Interwar Years, 1919-1940; title: Brigadier General Dion Williams, USMC; title: Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Austell Cunningham, USMC; title: Lieutenant General John A. Lejeune, USMC; title: Brigadier General Robert H. Dunlap, USMC; title: Colonel Ellis B. Miller, USMC; title: Major General John H. Russell, Jr., USMC; title: pt. 3. The War Years, 1941-1945; title: Lieutenant General Pedro del Valle, USMC; title: Rear Admiral Walter C. Ansel, USN; title: Lieutenant General Arthur G. Trudeau, U.S. Army; title: General George S. Patton, Jr., U.S. Army; title: Appendix: Amphibious Assault Plans.