Overlord : D-Day and the battle for Normandy /
Hastings, Max.,
Overlord : D-Day and the battle for Normandy / D-Day and the battle for Normandy Max Hastings. - New York : Simon and Schuster, �1984. - 368 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Maps on lining papers.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-353) and index.
"Much the greatest thing we have ever attempted" -- Preparations: commanders; airmen; invaders; defenders -- To the far shore: the overture; the American beaches; the British beaches; Inland -- The British before Caen: closing the lines; Villers-Bocage; EPSOM -- The Americans before Cherbourg: the bocage; the battle for Cherbourg -- The German army: stemming the tide: Soldiers; weapons -- The battlefield: from the beachhead to the front; casualties -- Crisis of confidence: the fall of Caen; GOODWOOD -- The breakout: COBRA; the limits of air power -- The open flank -- The road to Falaise -- The gap -- Appendices: Glossary ; Chronology of the Normandy Campaign ; Allied Order of Battle ; German land forces encountered by the Allies in Normandy.
Describes the military effort by which the Allies regained the continent of Europe in World War II.
0671460293 9780671460297 0671554352 9780671554354
83020439
(AMICUS)000004337759
1939-1945
Operation Overlord.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France--Normandy.
Normandy (France)--History.
History.
D756.5.N6 / H27
Overlord : D-Day and the battle for Normandy / D-Day and the battle for Normandy Max Hastings. - New York : Simon and Schuster, �1984. - 368 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Maps on lining papers.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-353) and index.
"Much the greatest thing we have ever attempted" -- Preparations: commanders; airmen; invaders; defenders -- To the far shore: the overture; the American beaches; the British beaches; Inland -- The British before Caen: closing the lines; Villers-Bocage; EPSOM -- The Americans before Cherbourg: the bocage; the battle for Cherbourg -- The German army: stemming the tide: Soldiers; weapons -- The battlefield: from the beachhead to the front; casualties -- Crisis of confidence: the fall of Caen; GOODWOOD -- The breakout: COBRA; the limits of air power -- The open flank -- The road to Falaise -- The gap -- Appendices: Glossary ; Chronology of the Normandy Campaign ; Allied Order of Battle ; German land forces encountered by the Allies in Normandy.
Describes the military effort by which the Allies regained the continent of Europe in World War II.
0671460293 9780671460297 0671554352 9780671554354
83020439
(AMICUS)000004337759
1939-1945
Operation Overlord.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France--Normandy.
Normandy (France)--History.
History.
D756.5.N6 / H27