The Allied assault on Normandy beaches was an almost flawless success, but it was to take three months of bitter fighting before the German defence of Normandy finally collapsed and Paris was liberated.
The Allied assault on Normandy beaches was an almost flawless success, but it was to take three months of bitter fighting before the German defence of Normandy finally collapsed and Paris was liberated.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
John Keegan is the Defence Editor of the Daily Telegraph and Britain's foremost military historian. The Reith Lecturer in 1998, he is the author of many bestselling books including The Face of Battle, Six Armies in Normandy, Battle at Sea, The Second World War, A History of Warfare (awarded the Duff Cooper Prize), Warpaths, The Battle for History, The First World War, and most recently, Intelligence in War. For many years John Keegan was the Senior Lecturer in Military History at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and he has been a Fellow of Princeton University and Delmas Distinguished Professor of History at Vassar. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He received the OBE in the Gulf War honours list, and was knighted in the Millennium honours list in 1999. John Keegan died in August 2012.
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Six Armies in NormandyIllustrations and Credits Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Prologue In the Invasion Area 1. Journey to the Second Front Stilwell Wedemeyer Eisenhower Molotov Marshall Brooke Montgomery Rommel 2. All-American Screaming Eagles Flight Descent Landing Gathering Action 1. The 3rd/505th at Ste Mère-Eglise 2. The 1st/505th at the Merderet 3. The 2nd/507th at Cauquigny 4. The 3rd/506th at the Douve Bridges 5. The 1st/502nd at WXYZ 6. The 3rd/501st at Pouppeville 3. Canada: to the South Shore Dieppe: the Awful Warning Fire Support The German Defenders Bombardment Run-in Touch-down Inland 4. Scottish Corridor The Fight of the Panzer Divisions The March to the Battlefield The Fall of Cherbourg The Great Storm Epsom Scotland the Brave Finding the Enemy Across the River 5. Yeomen of England Planning a Break-through The Waiting Armour Moving Up Bombardment Into the Corridor Battle Group von Luck Counter-attack Repercussions 6. The Honour of the German Army Break-through Patton The Will of the Führer Operation Lüttich 7. 'A Polish Battlefield' 'The Worst Day of My Life' Command Indecision General Sikorski's Tourists Contact at Chambois The Mace 8. Free France Insurrection Truce De Gaulle La Division Leclerc Liberation Epilogue From the Atlantic Wall to the Iron Curtain Appendix: British, American and German Divisions in Normandy, June 6th-August 25th, 1944 References Select Bibliography Index Index of Formations and Units
Six Armies in NormandyIllustrations and Credits Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Prologue In the Invasion Area 1. Journey to the Second Front Stilwell Wedemeyer Eisenhower Molotov Marshall Brooke Montgomery Rommel 2. All-American Screaming Eagles Flight Descent Landing Gathering Action 1. The 3rd/505th at Ste Mère-Eglise 2. The 1st/505th at the Merderet 3. The 2nd/507th at Cauquigny 4. The 3rd/506th at the Douve Bridges 5. The 1st/502nd at WXYZ 6. The 3rd/501st at Pouppeville 3. Canada: to the South Shore Dieppe: the Awful Warning Fire Support The German Defenders Bombardment Run-in Touch-down Inland 4. Scottish Corridor The Fight of the Panzer Divisions The March to the Battlefield The Fall of Cherbourg The Great Storm Epsom Scotland the Brave Finding the Enemy Across the River 5. Yeomen of England Planning a Break-through The Waiting Armour Moving Up Bombardment Into the Corridor Battle Group von Luck Counter-attack Repercussions 6. The Honour of the German Army Break-through Patton The Will of the Führer Operation Lüttich 7. 'A Polish Battlefield' 'The Worst Day of My Life' Command Indecision General Sikorski's Tourists Contact at Chambois The Mace 8. Free France Insurrection Truce De Gaulle La Division Leclerc Liberation Epilogue From the Atlantic Wall to the Iron Curtain Appendix: British, American and German Divisions in Normandy, June 6th-August 25th, 1944 References Select Bibliography Index Index of Formations and Units
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