Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance, and U.S. Strategy in World War II

by Mark A. Stoler

Book Overview

During World War II the uniformed heads of the U.S. armed services assumed a pivotal and unprecedented role in the formulation of the nation's foreign policies. Organized soon after Pearl Harbor as the Joint Chiefs of Staff, these individuals were officially responsible only for the nation's military forces. During the war their functions came to encompass a host of foreign policy concerns, however, and so powerful did the military voice become on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807825573
• ISBN13: 9780807825570
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"