Download e-book for kindle: Preparing for Victory: Thomas Holcomb and the Making of the by David Ulbrich,Colonel Charles P. Neimeyer USMC (Ret.)

By David Ulbrich,Colonel Charles P. Neimeyer USMC (Ret.)

ISBN-10: 1591149037

ISBN-13: 9781591149033

This is the 1st ebook to ascertain Thomas Holcomb s an important function as commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps throughout the nice melancholy and global conflict II. It blends biographical, institutional, and operational background with management stories, organizational concept, and social and cultural historical past to provide an explanation for how and why Holcomb succeeded in increasing the Marine Corps from 18,000 officials and males in 1936 to 385,000 by means of 1943. David Ulbrich contends that Holcomb s talents and achievements fit these of Chester W. Nimitz and George C. Marshall. regardless of Holcomb s good fortune, despite the fact that, he has been given brief shrift in histories of the Marine Corps. To right the oversight, this biography attracts on quite a lot of assets to inform the tale of the Marine commandant who molded the Corps right into a sleek force-in-readiness that may not just led tips to victory within the pacific, but in addition may finally support struggle the Cold

War and the struggle on terror.

A Leatherneck unique, released with the Marine Corps Association.
Foreword via Lt. Col. Charles P. Neimeyer, USMC (Ret.), Director and leader of Marine Corps heritage. A Leatherneck unique, released with the Marine Corps Association.

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