The Chief of Staff: The Military Career of General Walter Bedell Smith

by D.K.R. Crosswell

Book Overview

The functions of staff officers in U.S. military history have been largely ignored by historians who have preferred to focus on the role of the combat officer. This examination of the career of General Walter Bedell Smith, Chief of Staff to General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and his valuable contribution to Allied success, represents an effort to fill a void in the current historiography of U.S. participation in Europe in World War II. While specifically...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313274800
• ISBN13: 9780313274800
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"