Stephen Badsey, Tim Bean

D-Day: Omaha Beach

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Archive photos, full-color mapping, and easy-to-follow battlefield tours enrich this account of the hardest fight of D-Day Infantry Divisions led the assault on Omaha Beach, the most strongly defended of the all invasion beaches, and the entire fight is narrated in this book. Supporting Allied bombers had mostly missed their targets, the offshore naval bombardment was hampered by poor visibility, and many elements of the first assault waves were swamped or sank, including amphibious tanks. The first waves of infantry waded ashore into a storm of German fire. In these first harrowing hours of "Overlord," Lieutenant General Omar Bradley, commanding First U.S. Army, seriously considered aborting the Omaha landing altogether. Yet despite appalling difficulties and heavy casualties, the U.S. troops prevailed and a vulnerable bridgehead inland was established by the evening of June 6.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: History Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 423g
• ISBN-13: 9780752459158
• ISBN-10: 0752459155
• Artikelnr.: 32557600

Autorenporträt

Stephen Badsey has written or contributed to more than 50 works of military history and theory, including Arnhem 1944: Operation "Market Garden" and The Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871. Tim Bean is a specialist in the history of amphibious operations.