Format:
Book
Author(s):
Hastings, Max
Keyword(s):
Operation Overlord.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy.
OpÈration Overlord.
Normandie, Bataille de, 1944.
Normandy (France) -- History.
Normandie (France) -- Histoire.
Normandie -- Invasion (1944)
Year:
1984
Pages:
368 p.
Publisher:
Simon and Schuster
Publisher location:
New York
Accession number:
10301966
Label:
Box 119
Notes:
ill. ; 25 cm.
"Much the greatest thing we have ever attempted" -- Preparations: commanders; airmen; invaders; defenders -- The the far shore: the overture; the American beaches; the British beaches; Inland -- The British before Caen: closing the lines; Villers-Bocage; EPSOM -- The Americans before Cherbourg: the bocage; the battle for Cherbourg -- The German army: stemming the tide: Soldiers; weapons -- The battlefield: from the beachhead to the front; casualties -- Crisis of confidence: the fall of Caen; Goodwood -- The breakout: Cobra; the limits of air power -- The open flank -- The road to Falaise -- The gap.
Maps on lining papers./ Includes index./ Bibliography: p. [350]-353.
D-Day and the battle for Normandy.
Max Hastings.
Book
Language:
English
Call number:
LC: D756.5.N6; Dewey: 940.54/21
ISBN:
ISBN: 0671460293; 9780671460297 LCCN: 83-20439
Abstract:
Describes the military effort by which the Allies regained the continent of Europe in World War II.