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Calculated Risk

Categorie	WO II
Boeknummer	#269686
Titel	Calculated Risk
Auteur	Clark, General Mark W.
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	New York, Enigma Books
Jaar van uitgave	2007
ISBN10	1929631596
ISBN13	9781929631599
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	General Mark W. Clark was one of the most successful - and controversial - US officers of World War II. Reprinted here for the first time in fifty years are his memoirs, which have been newly updated by his biographer, Martin Blumenson. A 1917 graduate of West Point, Clark was wounded on his first day of combat while serving with the 5th Division in France in June 1918. In 1942, George Marshall sent Clark to England, where he so impressed Winston Churchill that the prime minister nicknamed him`the American Eagle'. Shortly after, he was appointed as Dwight D. Eisenshower's deputy supreme commander for the invasion of French North Africa. Clark commanded the Fifth Army in Italy from 1942 to 1945. His appointment made him the youngest lieutenant general in the US Army; however, despite a we... (Lees verder)ll-earned reputation for bravery his command was not without criticism- in particular, that resulting from the costly assaults against the town of Monte Cassino. Calculated Risk gives an unprecedented insight into this most complex commander and his campaigns.
Pagina's	399
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 30,00

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