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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOften overlooked even by closely-connected historians, the Cold War issues Bradley dealt with, excluding the Korean War, have never been examined as closely as in Ossad’s book. The research and military analysis are superb, and the author has an exceptional sense of military history long before and long after the years this book focuses upon."" - Jonathan W. Jordan, author of
Brothers, Rivals, Victors: Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley and the Partnership That Drove the Allied Conquest in EuropeTable of Contents
- Omar Nelson Bradley: America's GI General, 1893-1981
- List of Maps
- Timeline of Omar Nelson Bradley
- Introduction
- Prologue: The 1913 Army-Navy Baseball Game
- Part I: Becoming a Commander
- Chapter 1 Itinerant farmer from Little Dixie
- Chapter 2 “The most democratic institution in the world”
- Chapter 3 Mastering the profession of arms
- Chapter 4 Learning “to walk, to crawl, to run”
- Chapter 5 The Strong Right Arm
- Part II: The Liberation of Europe
- Chapter 6 ""Far and away the greatest thing we have yet attempted""
- Chapter 7 COBRA Sprouts Wings
- Chapter 8 “the greatest war machine in the history of American arms”
- Chapter 9 Staking all on one card
- Chapter 10 The Rhine
- Part III: Shaper of the Post-War World
- Chapter 11 The VA: “… infiltration and encirclement as practiced in Washington”
- Chapter 12 wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy
