A General’s Life (an autobiography by Bradley, Omar Nelson) PDF
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A general's life : an autobiography Blair, Clay, 1925-1998 Bradley, Omar Nelson, 1893-1981; Blair, Clay, 1925-1998 1983 A general's life : an autobiography Bradley, Omar Nelson, 1893-1981 Blair, Clay, 1925-1998 This book was produced in EPUB format by the Internet Archive. The book pages were scanned and converted to EPUB format automatically. This process relies on optical character recognition, and is somewhat susceptible to errors. The book may not offer the correct reading sequence, and there may be weird characters, non-words, and incorrect guesses at structure. Some page numbers and headers or footers may remain from the scanned page. The process which identifies images might have found stray marks on the page which are not actually images from the book. The hidden page numbering which may be available to your ereader corresponds to the numbered pages in the print edition, but is not an exact match; page numbers will increment at the same rate as the corresponding print edition, but we may have started numbering before the print book's visible page numbers. The Internet Archive is working to improve the scanning process and resulting books, but in the meantime, we hope that this book will be useful to you. The Internet Archive was founded in 1996 to build an Internet library and to promote universal access to all knowledge. The Archive's purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. The Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages, and provides specialized services for information access for the blind and other persons with disabilities. Created with abbyy2epub (v.1.7.0) AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY BRADLEY OMAR NELSON AND CLAY BLAIR In the final years of his long life, five- star General of the Army Omar Bradley began the ambitious task of writing his autobiography. He chose to write with Clay Blair, an expert on World War II, and granted Mr. Blair numerous inter- views and full access to all his personal papers. The result of this collaboration is an extraordinary autobiography, vivid and compelling, a sweeping and vital slice of American history. Omar Bradley grew up in near-poverty in rural Missouri. He won an appoint- ment to West Point when the prime candidate failed the rigorous entrance examinations. A good student and outstanding athlete, Bradley missed action in France in World War I and believed his career to be ruined as a result. Nevertheless, he steadily advan- ced in a peace-time army reduced to barely 100,000 men until he caught the eye of General George C. Marshall, who sent Bradley to serve with Gene- ral Dwight Eisenhower in North Africa early in World War II. Bradley proved himself a skilled battlefield general there and in Sicily, and he was chosen to lead American troops in the D-Day invasion of France. He eventually com- manded four field armies (1.3 million men) in Europe, the largest American fighting force in history. His victorious campaign in Europe has earned Gene- ral Bradley an esteemed place in American history. What distinguishes this autobiography is not only the enthralling narrative of these events but General Bradley's total candor in evaluating his wartime colleagues. Bradley rates Eisenhower as an able diplomat but a poor battle- field manager; he assesses George Patton as a leader with so many grave personal faults that Patton was only reluctantly chosen to participate in the invasion of France; and Bradley depicts Montgomery as an overrated general whose style of warfare was already outmoded and whose megalo- mania made him nearly impossible to work with. General Bradley's post-World War II career is less well known but no less important. As head of the Veterans Administration, he managed the enor- mous task of coping with 15 million new veterans, completely transfor- ming the VA in the process. He became Chief of Staff of the Army during the acrimonious debate over unification of the armed forces and then became the first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. As Chairman of the JCS, Bradley was a principal military adviser to President Truman during the Korean War, and he candidly discusses the flawed strategy of that war. As in the World War II section of his autobio- graphy, General Bradley draws on formerly top-secret communications and recently declassified documents to provide authentic behind-the-scenes drama. He gives a frank description of General MacArthur's performance in Korea, commenting freely on the noto- rious Truman-MacArthur controversy
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