Wedemeyer Reports! Albert C. Wedemeyer 9781258164034 Books
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An Objective, Dispassionate Examination Of World War II, Postwar Policies, And Grand Strategy.
Wedemeyer Reports! Albert C. Wedemeyer 9781258164034 Books
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A must read for those who want to know more about the politics and WW II. I first read this book in the early 1960's and it was a excellent work.
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An insiders look at the planning that took place before and during WWII by the general who was in charge of planning for Gen, George Marshall. It reveals some the foibles in some of our iconic leaders. This book also answers some questions about why it took so long to get to D-Day in 1944, when we began moving our Army 8th Air Force into England in 1942. Wedemeyer was also the general who finally helped Chennault (of Flying Tigers fame) out in China (the forgotten CBI Theatre) after years of neglect by Gen. Stillwell. Extremely interesting insiders view.
This book challenges many conventional thoughts regarding our country and WW2. I must say I agree with him and his insights were thoughtful and challenging. For those who love this nation and want insights into the Cold War and the role of communism then, and now.
I met with the General in Washington after he retired and was working for the CIA. I was scheduled to go to Singapore to work to defeat the man running for office which our government thought was a Communist. I had lived there, met my wife there, had worked for the World Assembly of Youth (Western bloc nations youth organization) as Organizing Secretary in the Fifties. I explained that Lee Kuan Yew was not a Communist. He pressed a red button, spoke a command to the person who answered, "Send Singapore File on Lee Kuan Yew." In a few moments a motorcycle pulled up outside. A man stepped in with a sealed enveloped. The General signed for it, broke the seal and began to read. I sat for half hour as his face changed expressions from surprise, anger, then very serious. He look up at me and said, "You are right!" This mission is off. I have to say that it took courage and a great deal of knowledge to make that very wise decision. MY wife and our almost one year old son was in the hotel waiting for me to return with the tickets and funds for the trip. I had left our little home in Glendora, Mississippi to be sold, not expecting to be back there any time soon. We returned, without the CIA or the General even paying the hotel bill. My last short work for our government but the best advice I ever gave and this great man took it!. I wish I could have known him better. Lee Kuan Yew went on to be one of the greatest leaders of any nation in the last two centuries. Today they are free, no debt and one of the cleanest places on earth as well as being more crime free than any I know. This, one of many of his books, is as good as you can get on the subjects covering the areas he writes about for that time in history.
This is one of the most thought-provoking books I have ever read.
General Wedemeyer, as this book portrays him, is one of those people who come out of the woodwork, and you wonder -- at least I do -- "Why haven't I ever heard of you before?"
I recently became interested in Wedemeyer when I found this book, in perfect condition, within the personal papers of General Robert Neyland, the longtime head football coach (1926-1952) and athletic director (1952-1962) at the University of Tennessee.
It is fairly obvious to me that Neyland admired Wedemeyer from the contact between the two men in China in 1944-1945. Wedemeyer had just replaced General Stilwell there as the ranking American officer and Chiang Kai-shek's Chief of Staff. I think that's correct -- Stilwell once found that he held about eight positions at once. It appears that perhaps Wedemeyer was so impressed with Neyland's job as director of Service of Supply at Kunming, China that he recommended Neyland for the same job in Calcutta, India, where Neyland also performed admirably.
This book explains better than any other I have ever found how the powers that be -- Churchill, Roosevelt, Marshall, etc. -- planned and engineered the conduct of World War II against the Nazis and the Japanese. In explaining this Wedemeyer takes the opportunity to express his opinions, and those frequently differed from those of Churchill, Roosevelt, or Marshall.
This is not to say that Wedemeyer said a lot that others didn't say. It appears that most military men, for example, agreed with Wedemeyer that George C. Marshall as Secretary of State 1947-48, was wrong in his refusal to help the Nationalist Chinese under Chiang against Mao and the Communist Chinese.
Wedemeyer goes so far as to say that we should have let the Germans and the Russians fight it out, so as not to allow Russia to step into the vacuum created when Germany was defeated. Wedemeyer says that the danger of Russian Communism was greater than that of German Nazism. Wedemeyer states straight out that America has -- or had -- no proper goals for what happened AFTER the war -- and that involved our decision at Casablanca in 1942 to demand Unconditional Surrender of the Axis. By demanding this, we prepared -- or mis-prepared -- for a world to be taken over by Communism as a result of our victories over Germany, Japan -- and Italy.
Wedemeyer shows little respect for President Roosevelt. He finds that Roosevelt was pushed around by Churchill, who as a result was able to delay the cross-Channel invasion from happening in 1943, which, had it taken place then, says Wedemeyer, would probably have shortened the war by a year. Churchill and his advisors wanted a Mediterranean war instead, and this resulted in the North Africa, Sicily, and Italian campaigns, all of which, says Wedemeyer, were unnecessary.
In the late thirties Wedemeyer had gone to the German War College in Berlin, where he was taught that you hit the enemy where he is strongest. He found that both Churchill and Hitler erred in not following this policy, Churchill by preferring not to attack across the Channel and Hitler by not bearing down sufficiently either at Verdun or in the Bombing of London.
Wedemeyer emphasizes his respect for General Marshall throughout the war, but he thinks that by 1947, when Marshall was made Secretary of State, he was an old man whose mind had slipped.
The book has a tendency to slow down at times, but it is so well written that it spares the reader a lot of flowery, wispy nonsense that seems to characterize so much history writing nowadays. Wedemeyer is simply writing about what he actually EXPERIENCED, and this makes the book hard to put down most of the time.
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