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The 56th Infantry Brigade and D-day : an independent infantry brigade and the campaign in north west Europe 1944-1945 /
Trained as an assault brigade, the 56th landed on D-Day and successfully liberated Bayeux the following day. It was then employed in the crossing of the River Seine and the assault on Le Havre, before fighting across Belgium and Holland culminating in the final assault on Arnhem in April 1945, by wh...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
2010.
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| Colección: | Continuum studies in military history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Trained as an assault brigade, the 56th landed on D-Day and successfully liberated Bayeux the following day. It was then employed in the crossing of the River Seine and the assault on Le Havre, before fighting across Belgium and Holland culminating in the final assault on Arnhem in April 1945, by which time the brigade had served in four different divisions. No previous study has sought to explain how an infantry brigade is used in battle, let alone one holding the title 'Independent'. Holborn considers the styles of war as carried out by British forces and casts new light on the effec. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (248 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781441198341 1441198342 9781441119087 1441119086 9781282770959 1282770950 |