D-day : the Battle for Normandy / Antony Beevor.
Beevor, Antony, 1946-
2009
D756.5.N6 B387 2009 (Mapit)
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Title D-day : the Battle for Normandy / Antony Beevor.
Author Beevor, Antony, 1946-
Edition 1st American ed.
ISBN 9780670887033
067088703X
9780670021192
0670021199
9780670918096
9780670918096 paperback
Imprint New York : Viking, 2009.
Language English
Description xv, 591 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Call Number D756.5.N6 B387 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 940.54/21421
Summary [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.
Note Some maps on lining papers.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 570-574) and index.
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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.

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