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010 $a 2007006194
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020 $a9780700615124 (cloth : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aD759$b.C256 2007
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100 1 $aCallahan, Raymond.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80019608
245 10 $aChurchill & his generals /$cRaymond Callahan.
246 18 $aChurchill and his generals
260 $aLawrence, Kan. :$bUniversity Press of Kansas,$c[2007], ©2007.
300 $ax, 310 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aModern war studies
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 241-298) and index.
505 00 $tPrelude : an evening at chequers -- $g1.$tLegacies -- $g2.$tRetreats and evacuations -- $g3.$tRommel's victims -- $g4.$tDebacles -- $g5.$tMonty and his enemies -- $g6.$tAlex and the soft underbelly -- $g7.$tThe last Sepoy general -- $g8.$tThree victories -- $g9.$tWinston and his generals.
520 1 $a"On the eve of World War II, the British army was more an international police force than a true combat-ready fighting machine. Raymond Callahan chronicles its trial-by-fire transformation in a new and unflinching look at Great Britain's top commanders in the field." "Callahan reexamines the much-maligned performance of the British army in that war by reevaluating its commanders' victories and defeats, their leadership abilities and flaws, and their often rocky relationships with Prime Minister Winston Churchill, whose powerful presence looms over every page. Revisiting wartime theaters stretching from Southeast Asia across India through the Middle East, info North Africa, and across Europe, Callahan revises and expands our understanding of how British commanders - both the best and worst - led their troops and executed their strategies." "Churchill and His Generals is the most comprehensive analysis of this wartime relationship, an account of institutional transformation under extreme stress that balances Churchill's self-serving memoirs. It clearly demonstrates that what political leaders demand from their armies is less important than what those armies are designed to do - and that this oft-recurring disconnect lies at the root of much wartime civil-military tension."--BOOK JACKET.
610 10 $aGreat Britain.$bArmy$xHistory$yWorld War, 1939-1945.
610 10 $aGreat Britain.$bArmy$xDrill and tactics$xHistory.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zGreat Britain.
830 0 $aModern war studies.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86714675
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0710/2007006194.html
852 00 $boff,glx$hD759$i.C256 2007