Normandy '44 D-Day and the epic 77-day battle for France, a new history
"D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the seventy-six days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the west--the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. Yet as familiar as it is, as James Holland makes clear in hi...
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New York :
Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic,
2020.
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| Edition: | First Grove Atlantic paperback edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The battle before D-Day ; The Atlantic wall ; Command of the skies ; Understanding Montgomery and the master plan ; Countdown ; The winds of war ; Big war ; Air power
- Invasion. D-Day minus one ; D-Day: the first hours ; D-Day: dawn ; D-Day: the American landings ; D-Day: the British and Canadian landings ; D-Day: the turning of the battle ; D-Day: foothold
- Attrition. Bridgehead ; Fighter-bomber racecourse ; Linking up ; The constraints of wealth and the freedom of poverty ; Behind the lines ; The grinding battle ; The great storm ; EPSOM ; Cherbourg and the Scottish corridor ; Trouble at the top ; Bloody bocage ; Living like foxes
- Breakout ; A brief discourse on weapons and the operational level of war ; Crisis of command ; GOODWOOD ; Saint-Lô ; COBRA ; BLUECOAT ; LŰTTICH ; Tank battle at Saint-Aignan ; The corridor of death.
