TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hastings,Max
TI  - Overlord: D-Day and the battle for Normandy 
SN  - 0671460293
AV  - D756.5.N6 H27
PY  - 1984///
CY  - New York
PB  - Simon and Schuster
KW  - Operation Overlord
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - France
KW  - Normandy
KW  - Normandy (France)
KW  - History
KW  - fast
N1  - 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
N2  - Describes the military effort by which the Allies regained the continent of Europe in World War II
ER  -