Neptune : the D-Day landings and the Allied invasion of Europe

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"On June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along 50 miles of French coastline to battle German forces on the beaches of Normandy. D-Day, as it would come to be known, would eventually lead to the liberation of Western Europe, and was a critical step in the road to victory in World War II. Yet the story begins long before the Higgins landing craft opened their doors and men spilled out onto the beaches to face a storm of German bullets. The in...

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Military planning History 20th century

Operation Neptune

World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns France Normandy

World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations

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ISBN:

9780190462536

Description:

xvii, 422 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Germany first
Arcadia
"We've got to go to Europe and fight"
The Mediterranean tar baby
Casablanca to COSSAC
Brits and Yanks
"Some God-dammed things called LSTs"
SHAEF and ANCXF
Duck, fox, beaver, tiger
"A hum throughout the country"
D-Day : the invasion
D-Day : the beaches
D-Day : the crisis
"The shoreline was just a shambles"
"A field of ruins."

Control Number:

1643159

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Oxford University Press, publisher

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