Philip Padgett

Advocating Overlord

The D-Day Strategy and the Atomic Bomb

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Produktbeschreibung

This intriguing history challenges the standard D-Day narrative through an examination of the tensions between the Allied leaders in reaching their eventual agreement on Operation Overlord a year before that fateful day on the Normandy beaches.  

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Potomac Books
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 165mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781640123120
• ISBN-10: 1640123121
• Artikelnr.: 58019147

Autorenporträt

Philip Padgett spent forty years working in national security and preparedness analysis in the military, government, and the private sector. In his retirement Padgett joined the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Reserve Corps and assisted in national emergencies such as Superstorm Sandy. For more information about Advocating Overlord, visit philpadgett.com/.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Illustrations    
List of Acronyms    
List of Code Names and Military Operations    
Note on Time     
Prologue    
1. Symbol, the Casablanca Conference    
2. Campaigns of Attrition    
3. COSSAC’s Ninety Days to Deliver a Plan    
4. The Trident Conference’s Illusion of Agreement    
5. Mission to Moscow    
6. COSSAC’s Plan Emerges    
7. The Green Hornet    
8. Hammer and Tongs    
9. Revolt in London and Washington    
10. The Fishing Trip    
11. From One Attorney to Another    
12. The Happy Time at Birch Island    
13. Plain Speaking on the Potomac    
14. A Presidential Directive    
15. Blenheim on the Hudson    
16. Overlord Reaffirmed in Quebec    
17. Bolero Unleashed    
18. Sealing the Quebec Decisions    
Epilogue    
Acknowledgments    
Notes    
Bibliography    
Index