11 JANUARY 1946, Page 4

Report of the Chief of Staff of the United States

Army,7uly, I, 1943, to 7une 30, 1945, to the Secretary of War, now reprinted by His Majesty's Stationery. Office, price 2s. 6d. Admirably written and illustrated, it covers the course of events in all theatres, on land, on sea and in the air ; it gives one the exhilarating impression of being inside the mind of a man who saw the war not as a succession of

incidents but as one vast and intricate strategic plan, in which all subsidiary operations fall into their proper place. Some of General Marshall's comments are worth quoting. These are the concluding sentences of his chapter on manpower : "Even with two-thirds of the German Army engaged by Russia, it took every man the Nation, saw fit to mobilise to do our part of the job in Europe and at the same time keep the Japanese enemy under control in the Pacific. What would have been the result had the Red Army been defeated and the British Islands invaded, we can only guess. The possibility is rather terrifying."

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