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Overlord : D-Day and the battle for Normandy / Max Hastings.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Simon and Schuster, �1984.Description: 368 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0671460293
  • 9780671460297
  • 0671554352
  • 9780671554354
Other title:
  • D-Day and the battle for Normandy
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Overlord.LOC classification:
  • D756.5.N6 H27
Contents:
"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.
Summary: Describes the military effort by which the Allies regained the continent of Europe in World War II.
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Books Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College General stacks Reference D756.5.N6 H27 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C.1 Available 2024-4404

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.

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