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S. L. A. Marshall (1900–1977)

Teoksen The American Heritage History of World War I tekijä

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Brigadier General S. L. A. Marshall (1900-1977) was an accomplished journalist, war correspondent, & historian. One of the preeminent American military writers of our time, he wrote more than thirty books. (Bowker Author Biography)
Image credit: S.L.A. Marshall [credit: Archive of the U.S. War Department]

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Tekijän teokset

The River and the Gauntlet (1953) 173 kappaletta
Pork Chop Hill (1600) 162 kappaletta
Crimsoned Prairie (1970) 110 kappaletta
Battle at Best (1964) 50 kappaletta
Battles in the Monsoon (1967) 41 kappaletta
Sinai Victory (1958) 38 kappaletta
Ambush (Jove War Book) (1969) 25 kappaletta

Associated Works

Shiloh: Bloody April (1974) — Esipuhe, eräät painokset130 kappaletta
The Ignorant Armies (1960) — Esipuhe, eräät painokset52 kappaletta
Israel's War of Independence 1947-1949 (1961) — Johdanto, eräät painokset43 kappaletta
Still Quiet on the Western Front Fifty Years Later (1965) — Johdanto — 22 kappaletta
World War I (Photographic History of War) (2005) — Esipuhe — 19 kappaletta

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A pretty good history of the first stage in Operation Overlord. Marshall had been an infantryman in WWI in France, and had been commissioned from the ranks. Between the Wars he had been a military analyst, and a relative pioneer in the field. Recalled to duty in WWII, he was a keen proponent of after action reports as a service to historians and analists. This is his account of an operation that is heavily interested in his areas of command and control, and of increasing firepower in actual combat. It has been cited a good deal since its publication, by the current authorities in the field. It is worthy of a read.… (lisätietoja)
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DinadansFriend | 1 muu arvostelu | Mar 15, 2023 |
Much of the commentary on this page is erroneous. In Korea, Marshall was not a reporter or a journalist, but the U.S. Army's chief combat historian. His book was written primarily from official after-action military reports. That certainly doesn't guarantee their accuracy -- indeed, some of Marshall's other wartime writing has come under attack concerning its accuracy -- but he was not an ignorant newspaper reporter unfamiliar with military matters.
 
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GlennGarvin | 4 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Feb 16, 2023 |
I note that I read this book as the Middle east was tuning up for another Arab-Israeli war. The 1956 war itself was a complex struggle stemming in part from the last gasp of European colonialism in Egypt, the nationalization of the Suez Canal by Egypt, and, a bit of Israeli opportunism. As a campaign description, Brigadier General Marshall does a bang up job. The actions are accurately described, and the maps being adequate.
 
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DinadansFriend | 1 muu arvostelu | Jul 30, 2021 |
A good psychological book about battle command, weak statistics

This book is a classic in military history — one of the most popular analyses of morale in the US WW2 soldier. Unfortunately some of the main statistics in the book (primarily that only 10-25% of soldiers fire their weapons in combat) were probably never true, and are definitely not true with current training systems, but the rest of the book’s insights about the psychology of both commanders and the commanded remain true.

It was interesting to me just how different WW2-style war is from the “low intensity conflict” I’ve seen up close — primarily in an urban environment, sustained for years, and without decisive force or the same kind of clear territorial objectives. While both kinds of war are terrible, I hope we never see total war of the WW2 style again.

Some of the insights from this book seem applicable to civilian leadership, but it probably isn’t a particularly good resource for that, being both very dated and kind of specific to a certain kind of challenge (even if it weren’t military).
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octal | 2 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jan 1, 2021 |

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