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D-day : the Battle for Normandy
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D-day : the Battle for Normandy

Author: Antony Beevor
Publisher: New York : Viking, 2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st American edView all editions and formats
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[T]his is the first major account in more than twenty years to cover the whole invasion from June 6, 1944, right up to the liberation of Paris on August 25. It is the first book to describe not only the experiences of the American, British, Canadian, and German soldiers, but also the terrible suffering of the French caught up in the fighting.--From publisher description.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Antony Beevor
ISBN: 9780670887033 067088703X 9780670021192 0670021199
OCLC Number: 318411577
Notes: Some maps on lining papers.
Awards: Shortlisted for Galaxy National Book Awards: Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2010.
Description: xv, 591 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The decision --
Bearing the cross of Lorraine --
Watch on the Channel --
Sealing off the invasion area --
The airborne assault --
The armada crosses --
Omaha --
Utah and the airborne --
Gold and Juno --
Sword --
Securing the beachheads --
Failure at Caen --
Villers-Bocage --
The Americans on the Cotentin Peninsula --
Operation Epsom --
The battle of the Bocage --
Caen and the Hill of Calvary --
The final battle for Saint-Lô --
Operation Goodwood --
The plot against Hitler --
Operation Cobra : breakthrough --
Operation Cobra : breakout --
Brittany and Operation Bluecoat --
The Mortain counter-attack --
Operation Totalize --
The hammer and anvil --
The killing ground of the Falaise pocket --
The Paris uprising and the race for the Seine --
The Liberation of Paris --
Aftermath.
Responsibility: Antony Beevor.

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The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome. What followed them was some of the most cunning  Read more...

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