D-Day : the battle for Normandy / Antony Beevor
2009, Fifth Edition. London ; New York : Viking. Fine cloth copy in a fine, very slightly edge-bumped dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #469843
ISBN: 067088703X
Physical description; xv, 591 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. Contents; The decision -- Bearing the cross of Lorraine -- Watch on the channel -- Stealing off the invasion area -- The airborne assault -- The armada crosses -- Omaha -- Utah and the airborne -- Gold and Juno -- Sword -- Securing the beachheads -- Failure at Caen -- Villers-Bocage -- The Americans on the Cotentin Peninsula -- Operation Epsom -- The battle of the Bocage -- Caen and the Hill of Calvary -- The final battle for Saint-Lô -- Operation Goodwood -- The plot against Hitler -- Operation Cobra -- Breakthrough -- Operation Cobra -- Breakout -- Brittany and operation Bluecoat -- The Mortain counter-attack -- Operation Totalize -- The hammer and anvil -- The killing ground of the Falaise Pocket -- The Paris uprising and the race for the Seine -- The Liberation of Paris -- Aftermath. Subjects; World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns France Normandy. Operation Overlord.
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