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Decision in Normandy.
'The best-researched, best-written account [of the Normandy Campaign] I have ever read.''Drew Middleton, The New York Times Book Review One of the most controversial and dangerous military operations in the history of modern warfare, the battle for Normandy took over two years of plan...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Diversion Books,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Decision in Normandy
- Dedication
- Illustrations
- Maps
- Introduction
- PART I: The Great Endeavour
- CHAPTER 1: The Origins of the Second Front
- CHAPTER 2: Second Front, North Africa
- CHAPTER 3: The Birth of Operation Overlord
- CHAPTER 4: The Overlord Commanders
- CHAPTER 5: A Time for Decision
- CHAPTER 6: The Master Plan
- PART II: Invasion
- CHAPTER 7: D-Day: The Invasion of France
- CHAPTER 8: D-Day: The Orne Bridgehead
- CHAPTER 9: The Field of Battle
- CHAPTER 10: Caen: The Search for a Strategy
- CHAPTER 11: Villers-Bocage
- CHAPTER 12: Ends and Means
- CHAPTER 13: The Air Chiefs
- CHAPTER 14: Epsom: The Battle for the Odon
- CHAPTER 15: The Manpower Dilemma
- CHAPTER 16: The Price of Caution
- CHAPTER 17: Caen: Too Little, Too Late
- CHAPTER 18: D+ 30: Stalemate
- PART III: Breakout
- CHAPTER 19: Planning the Breakthrough: Cobra
- CHAPTER 20: Operation Goodwood
- CHAPTER 21: Into the Cauldron
- CHAPTER 22: The Furore Over Goodwood
- CHAPTER 23: Cobra
- CHAPTER 24: Turning the Corner at Avranches
- CHAPTER 25: The Great Encirclement
- PART IV: Aftermath
- CHAPTER 26: The Falaise Controversy
- CHAPTER 27: The Legacy of Normandy
- CHAPTER 28: The Normandy Myth
- Epilogue
- Postscript
- Appendix A
- Appendix B Battle Casualties 6 June to 29 August 1944
- Appendix C Extract from Eisenhower's letter of 23 May, 1946 to Field Marshal Montgomery1
- Sources
- Acknowledgements
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