HTTP/1.1 302 Found Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 20:02:07 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.34 (Unix) mod_perl/1.29 mod_ssl/2.8.25 OpenSSL/0.9.8a Location: /cgi-bin/access.cgi?uri=%2Fvolume05%2Fbiblio_primary%2F17%3Fv%3D05%3Bm%3Dbiblio_primary%3Bp%3D17 Connection: close Transfer-Encoding: chunked, chunked Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Set-Cookie: session=38.103.63.17.310741210363327960; path=/ The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
The Johns Hopkins University Press
The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower

Contents

volume 5 : bibliography
Bibliography:Essay on Primary Sources This project to locate, select, and publish the personal and official papers of a senior staff officer and theater and Allied commander required a wideranging search through personal papers and official archives. Because of the great bulk of sources available, careful attention had to be given to the proper selection of relevant files and concentration of effort on those which, upon initial survey, proved most rewarding. As the goal of this project was publishing those important items authored by General Eisenhower, or prepared under his close personal direction, the research concentrated on his own records and the personal records of his superiors and most immediate subordinates. The most fruitful official records proved to be those of the General's own headquarters and records of superior headquarters. It quickly became apparent that official records of most subordinate headquarters were among the least useful for locating items for inclusion in these volumes. Sometimes, however, they provided answers to questions raised in material selected from other sources. The further the research took us, the clearer it became that the extensive file of personal papers of General Eisenhower contained the greater part of the documents to be published and those necessary for annotations. Second in importance was the collection of documents and papers of Walter Bedell Smith, General Eisenhower's closest associate throughout the war. These two paramount bodies of manuscript material are described below in Section I. Sections II and III describe the most significant files in the records of the European theater and Allied commands and the various War Department offices. The final two sections describe the personal and official papers of the President and of various individuals in the United States and England whose lives and offices closely associated them with General Eisenhower. This is not meant to be an exhaustive examination of all the sources