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D-Day : the battle for Normandy / Antony Beevor.

Beevor, Antony, 1946- (Author).

Summary:

Even Stalin was awed by D-Day. 'In the whole history of war, ' he wrote to Churchill, 'there has never been such an undertaking.' Those who took part in the great cross-Channel invasion, whether soldier, sailor or airman, would never forget the sight. It was by far the largest invasion fleet ever known.

Record details

ISBN: 9780670887033
ISBN: 067088703X
ISBN: 9780670021192
ISBN: 0670021199
ISBN: 9780143118183
ISBN: 0143118188
Physical Description: xv, 591 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Publisher: London ; Viking, 2009.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-574) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The decision -- Bearing the cross of Lorraine -- Watch on the channel -- Stealing off the invasion area -- The airborne assault -- The armada crosses -- omaha -- Utah and the airborne -- Gold and Juno -- Sword -- Securing the beacheads -- 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 Hilter -- 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.