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It was their unobtrusive leadership style that relegated these career military men to the footnotes of military history.      Commanding Professionalism: Simpson, Moore, and the Ninth US Army corrects this historical oversight by examining the achievements of these overlooked heroes. Focusing on Simpson and Moore's careers from 1940 through the end of World War II, author William Stuart Nance recounts the pair's working relationship. Together, they successfully maneuvered through the squabbling of the American and British forces and developed an army admired for its consistency of conduct and military prowess, capable of resisting the complex external and political machinations of the time.      Simpson and Moore's unflinching devotion to the greater good and their steady handle on the dynamics of command\/staff relationships proved essential to the war effort and its ultimate success. 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The rapid expansion of China's trade has required large adjustment in its trading partners, and the expansion and adjustment will accelerate with WTO entry. The internal adjustment pressures in China from WTO entry are also immense. Recently dubbed Australia's Ambassador to the region by Rowan Callick of the Financial Review, Ross Garnaut was Australia's ambassador to China through an earlier exciting period when China took its first major steps towards opening to international trade and investment. He was instrumental in the development of China's thinking about the WTO. Ross Garnaut is Chairman of the China Economy and Business Program at The Australian National University. Australian members of the Program and their associates gather each year for the China Update. Ligang Song is leading authority on the internationalisation of the Chinese economy and on the development of the private sector in China. He has worked at Peking University and People's University in Beijing and at the International University in Tokyo.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49752794530065,"sku":"NGR9780813199269","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51842205712657,"sku":"CIN0813199263G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0813199263.jpg?v=1750786612"},{"product_id":"sabers-through-the-reich-book-william-stuart-nance-9780813169606","title":"Sabers through the Reich","description":"In  Sabers through the Reich, William Stuart Nance provides the first comprehensive operational history of American corps cavalry in the European Theater of Operations (ETO) during World War II. 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From D-Day and Operation Cobra to the Battle of the Bulge and the drive to the Rhine, these groups had the mobility, flexibility, and firepower to move quickly across the battlefield, enabling them to aid communications and intelligence gathering, reducing the Clausewitzian \"friction of war.\"","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51008082837777,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51008086049041,"sku":"NIN9780813169606","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0813169607.jpg?v=1751362609"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-william-stuart-nance.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}