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Author | : John Keegan |
Publisher | : Penguin Books |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1994-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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The man "who writes about the war better than almost anyone in our century" ( The Washington Post Book World) here details how the armies of six nations met on the battlefields of Normandy in what was to be the greatest allied achievement of World War II.
Author | : John Keegan |
Publisher | : New York : Viking Press |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Tells the story of the Allied invasion of Normandy and shows how each of the armies mirrored its own nation's values.
Author | : John Keegan |
Publisher | : London : Pimlico |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Europe |
ISBN | : 9780712655798 |
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The Allied assault on Normandy beaches was an almost flawless success, but it was to take three months of bitter fighting before the German defence of Normandy finally collapsed and Paris was liberated. In this masterly and highly individual account of that struggle, the reader is subjected to the grueling ordeals confronted by the combatants – each encounter related from the point of view of a different nationality. In this way we learn precisely what it was like to take part in the American airborne landings, move up the Canadian beachhead under a blistering hail of fire, attack on foot across country with Scottish infantry, engage the enemy from a British tank, move into the German counter-attack at Morain, close the Falaise Pocket under Polish command, and liberate Paris as a Free Frenchman. Six Armies in Normandytranscends conventional military history while providing an intensely vivid picture of one of the Second World War’s most crucial campaigns.
Author | : Carlo D'Este |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 555 |
Release | : 2001-06-01 |
Genre | : Normandy (France) |
ISBN | : 9781568522609 |
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Here, for the first time in paperback, is an outstanding military history that offers a dramatic new perspective on the Allied campaign that began with the invasion of the D-Day beaches of Normandy. Nationa advertising in Military History.
Author | : Stephen E. Ambrose |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2013-04-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1476740259 |
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From Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bitterest days of World War II. In this riveting account, historian Stephen E. Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 bestseller D-Day. Citizen Soldiers opens at 0001 hours, June 7, 1944, on the Normandy beaches, and ends at 0245 hours, May 7, 1945, with the allied victory. It is biography of the US Army in the European Theater of Operations, and Ambrose again follows the individual characters of this noble, brutal, and tragic war. From the high command down to the ordinary soldier, Ambrose draws on hundreds of interviews to re-create the war experience with startling clarity and immediacy. From the hedgerows of Normandy to the overrunning of Germany, Ambrose tells the real story of World War II from the perspective of the men and women who fought it.
Author | : Michael Dale Doubler |
Publisher | : Fort Leavenworth, Kan. : U.S. Army Command and General Staff College |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Bocage normand (France) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Joseph Balkoski |
Publisher | : Stackpole Books |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2005-08-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0811741451 |
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Expanded edition with a new chapter on the final battles of the Normandy campaign.
Author | : Adrian R. Lewis |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2003-11-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807862584 |
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The Allied victory at Omaha Beach was a costly one. A direct infantry assault against a defense that was years in the making, undertaken in daylight following a mere thirty-minute bombardment, the attack had neither the advantage of tactical surprise nor that of overwhelming firepower. American forces were forced to improvise under enemy fire, and although they were ultimately victorious, they suffered devastating casualties. Why did the Allies embark on an attack with so many disadvantages? Making extensive use of primary sources, Adrian Lewis traces the development of the doctrine behind the plan for the invasion of Normandy to explain why the battles for the beaches were fought as they were. Although blame for the Omaha Beach disaster has traditionally been placed on tactical leaders at the battle site, Lewis argues that the real responsibility lay at the higher levels of operations and strategy planning. Ignoring lessons learned in the Mediterranean and Pacific theaters, British and American military leaders employed a hybrid doctrine of amphibious warfare at Normandy, one that failed to maximize the advantages of either British or U.S. doctrine. Had Allied forces at the other landing sites faced German forces of the quality and quantity of those at Omaha Beach, Lewis says, they too would have suffered heavy casualties and faced the prospect of defeat.
Author | : John Prados |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2011-07-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1101516615 |
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A military intelligence expert examines the most formative battle of World War II. The Battle of Normandy was the greatest offensive campaign the world had ever seen. Millions of soldiers battling for control of Europe were thrust onto the front lines of a massive war unlike any experienced in history. But the greatest of clashes would prove to be the crucible in which the outcome of World War II would be decided. Author John Prados tells the story of how and why the tactics and battle plans of Normandy proved so formative, and reconstructs the climactic Allied Normandy breakout from both sides of the battle lines.
Author | : G. H. Bennett |
Publisher | : Stackpole Books |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2009-04-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1461750881 |
Download Destination Normandy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A cross-section of the American experience on D-Day Unique perspective from the regimental level that also integrates strategic and tactical considerations Stories of largely forgotten acts of valor G. H. Bennett collects oral histories from the soldiers of three American regiments and weaves them into an intimate account of the D-Day invasion of June 6, 1944. Widely scattered during its drop into Normandy, the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment (82nd Airborne Division) stopped the advance of an SS division. The untested 116th Infantry Regiment (29th Infantry Division) landed on bloody Omaha Beach, where it suffered more casualties than any other regiment that day. Meanwhile, the 22nd Infantry Regiment (4th Infantry Division) easily waded ashore on Utah Beach but faced savage fighting as it moved inland.