Allied strategy in Europe, 1939-1945

Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 677-702

  Matloff, Maurice ^a  

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1. This essay is in large measure an outgrowth of the author's research and writing on Allied strategy in World War II incorporated in Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1941-1942, with Edwin M. Snell (Washington, D.C., 1953), and Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1943-1944 (Washington, D.C., 1959), volumes in the official U.S. Army in World War II series, and in various published essays and articles indicated in the footnotes and the bibliographical note.
2. Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War: Closing the Ring (Boston, 1951), 426.
3. J. F. C. Fuller, The Second World War, 1939-1945 (New York, 1949), 250, 266, 385.
4. Chester Wilmot, The Struggle for Europe (New York, 1952), esp. pp. 11, 12, 109, 128, 138, 338, 448. For an analysis of Wilmoťs thesis see Maurice Matloff, "Wilmot Revisited: Myth and Reality in Anglo-American Strategy for the Second Front," an essay published by the Eisenhower Foundation in D-Day: The Normandy Invasion in Retrospect (Lawrence, Kans., 1971).
5. Interview, Dr. Sidney Mathews, Major Roy Lamson, and Major David Hamilton with General Marshall, 25 July 1949, Office Chief of Military History Files, quoted in Matloff, Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1943-1944, 5.
6. For a first-hand account of relations with the Soviet Union in World War II as seen from Moscow, consult John R. Deane, The Strange Alliance (New York, 1947).
7. For accounts of the ABC Conference see Mark S. Watson, Chief of Staff: Prewar Plans and Preparations (Washington, D.C., 1950), ch. 12; Matloff and Snell, Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare , 1941-1942, ch. 3; and Louis Morton, "Germany First: The Basic Concept of Allied Strategy in World War II" in Command Decisions , ed. Kent R. Greenfield (Washington, D.C., 1960).
8. The Arcadia Conference is discussed at length in Matloff and Snell, Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1941-1942, ch. 5.
9. Quoted in Matloff and Snell, Strategic Planning for Coalition "Warfare, 1941-1942, 61.
10. For an examination in the official British series of Churchill's position on the Balkans in 1943, see John Ehrman, Grand Strategy, vol. 5, August 1943-September 1944 (London, 1956), 112-13 and appendix, 554-56.
11. Gordon A. Harrison, "Operation Overlord," transcript of an address delivered at the Army War College, November 1951, Office Chief of Military History Files, quoted in Matloff, "The Anvil Decision: Crossroads of Strategy," in Command Decisions , ed. Greenfield.
12. This theme is developed in an essay by Maurice Matloff, "The 90-Division Gamble," in Command Decisions, ed. Greenfield.
13. Forrest C. Pogue, The Supreme Command (Washington, D.C., 1954) chs. 23, 24; Forrest C. Pogue, "The Decision to Halt at the Elbe" in Command Decisions , ed. Greenfield; and Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy (Boston, 1953), chs. 8, 11.
14. For General Marshall's position on Berlin and Prague, see Matloff, Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1943-1944, 534.
15. Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy, 455.
16. Michael Howard, The Mediterranean Strategy in the Second World War (New York, 1968), 69-70.
17. Samuel I. Rosenman, ed., The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945 volume (New York, 1950), 524.
18. For Gen. Marshall's recommendation see Marshall to Eisenhower, January 17, 1945, Eisenhower personal file, quoted in Pogue, Supreme Command , 407.