Strategic planning for coalition warfare, 1943-1944 / Maurice Matloff.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Cont.: Introduction: The basis of strategy -- Casablanca: beginning of an era: January 1943 -- Advance in the Mediterranean: January-May 1943 -- The search for a formula -- Mounting pressure in the Pacific and Far East: January-May 1943 -- The new look in strategic planning -- The Trident Conference: new pattens, May 1943 -- From Husky to Avalanche, May-Mid-August, 1943 -- Crossraods in the European War -- Current plans and future operations in the War against Japan: June-August 1943 -- Quadrant: shaping the patterns: August 1943 -- "The Mediterranean Again": August-November 1943 -- Strategy and command in the War against Germany -- British-American plans and Soviet expectations: August-November 1943 -- Strategic strands in the War against Japan: August-November 1943 -- Final rehearsals en route to Cairo -- Cairo-Tehran: a goal is reached: November-December 1943 -- Strategic inventory 1943 -- Concentration for the big blow: January-May 1944 -- The second front and the secondary war; the CBI: January-May 1944 -- The second front and the secondary war: the Pacific: January-May 1944 -- The promise of military victory: D-Day to September 1944 -- Political shadows -- Octagon: end of an era -- Epilogue -- Appendixes.