Hank H Cox

The General Who Wore Six Stars

The Inside Story of John C. H. Lee

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Produktbeschreibung

Lt. Gen. John C. H. Lee, commander of the Service of Supply (SOS) for the European Theater of Operations (ETO) during World War II, is a legendary military figure historians and servicemen love to hate. In this long-overdue biography of the brilliant yet eccentric commander, Hank H. Cox delves into the perplexing details of how Lt. Gen. John ¿Jesus Christ Himself¿ Lee let his idiosyncrasies get the better of him¿or at least polarize him against his fellow officers. Though having had an illustrious and successful military career, Lee has gone down in history as ¿a pompous little son-of-a-bitch only interested in self-advertisement.¿ Few can doubt this as he famously moved his headquarters to Paris where, during the height of the American Army supply crisis, 29,000 of his SOS troops shacked up in the finest hotels and, due to sheer number, created a black market on a grand scale. Since the main function of the SOS was to supply the combat troops with essential food, clothing, and medicine, it made little logistical sense to move the suppliers farther away from the battlefront. Yet, Cox argues, Lee's strategic genius throughout the war has been underappreciated not only by his contemporaries but also by WWII historians. Considering that one out of every four U.S. soldiers on the continent was under Lee¿s command, the man held a lot of power, which, many historians say, he abused. Drawing on Lee¿s own unpublished memoir as well as dense documentation of the supply situation in the ETO during WWII, Cox paints a vivid picture of the logistical supply chain during WWII and the man who ruled it all.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Potomac Books
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 199mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9781612349633
• ISBN-10: 1612349633
• Artikelnr.: 48504543

Autorenporträt

Hank H. Cox is a retired journalist, editor, and public information officer based in Washington DC. He is the author of Lincoln and the Sioux Uprising of 1862and For Love of a Dangerous Girl. 

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Clarence E. McKnight Jr.     
Introduction    
List of Abbreviations    
Chapter One. Slings and Arrows    
Chapter Two. A Woman Named John    
Chapter Three. Love and War    
Chapter Four. The Great Flood of 1927    
Chapter Five. Tragedy    
Chapter Six. War Clouds on the Horizon    
Chapter Seven. Bolero    
Chapter Eight. Lee’s Darkest Hour    
Chapter Nine. Torch    
Chapter Ten. Back to Bolero    
Chapter Eleven. Countdown to D-Day    
Chapter Twelve. The Overlord Logistical Plan    
Chapter Thirteen. The Great Adventure Begins    
Chapter Fourteen. The Great Breakout    
Chapter Fifteen. Taking the City of Light    
Chapter Sixteen. Lee in the Crosshairs    
Chapter Seventeen. Stalemate on the Western Front    
Chapter Eighteen. Lee’s Finest Hour    
Chapter Nineteen. Lee’s Advocacy of African Americans    
Chapter Twenty. Victory in Europe    
Chapter Twenty-One. Lee’s Excellent Italian Adventure    
Chapter Twenty-Two. An Unsung Hero    
Notes    
Bibliography