After D-Day : The U.S. Army Encounters the French /

""After D-Day" fits into a growing but still small body of works that examine the Allied liberators of France. This study focuses especially on what the French experience of the U. S. military was both during the liberation and shortly afterward. It complements Fuller's The Strug...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fuller, Robert Lynn, 1953- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
United States. > Army.
United States. > Army > History > World War, 1939-1945.
Public opinion.
Military relations.
Military operations, Aerial > American.
Military campaigns.
Armed Forces > Public opinion.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > France.
Civil-military relations > France > History > 20th century.
Americans > France > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > France.
United States.
France > Normandy.
France.
France > Politics and government > 1940-1945.
France > Military relations > United States.
United States > Military relations > France.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Americans, the French, and Charles de Gaulle before D-Day
  • The air war in France
  • Normandy
  • The free French government in Normandy
  • Liberated Cherbourg
  • Life during wartime in Normandy after D-Day
  • The U.S. Army meets the French forces of the interior
  • Surviving the breakout
  • Lorraine and Alsace
  • Enduring wartime in Lorraine
  • Americans in liberated Paris
  • Conclusions: The liberators and the liberated.

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