![]() ![]() Fantastic rows ensued as both the British and the American armies aligned command structures closely enough to cooperate in battle. In 1942, the American newcomers to the European theater found that, even after defeats nearly every time British forces met German ones on the ground, the British general staff was not inclined to have former colonials in command. ![]() Marshall wrote, “Our greatest triumph really lies in the fact that we achieved the impossible, Allied military unity of action.” Schooled in the wars of the 19th century and the trenches of WWI, Marshall shared military background but little else with his British counterpart, Alan Brooke. Just before Franklin Roosevelt’s death in April 1945, when Nazi Germany had all but collapsed, U.S. ![]() A richly detailed examination of the military and civilian leaders of Britain and America during World War II. ![]()
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