Author: Richard Hargreave
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Keywords: normandy, germans
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-10-01
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 1844154475
ISBN-13: 9781844154470
The Allied invasion of Northern France was the greatest combined operation in the history of warfare. Up until now it has been recorded from the attackers’ point of view whereas the defenders’ angle has been largely ignored.While the Germans knew an invasion was inevitable, no-one knew where or when it would fall. Those manning Hitler’s mighty Atlantic Wall may have felt secure in their bunkers but they had no conception of the fury and fire that was about to break.After the initial assaults of June established an Allied bridgehead, a state of stale-mate prevailed. The German
Author: Antony Beevor
Publisher: Viking Adult
Keywords: normandy, battle, day
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2009-10-13
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0670021199
ISBN-13: 9780670021192
The definitive account of the Normandy invasion by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945 From critically acclaimed world historian, Antony Beevor, this is the first major account in more than twenty years to cover the whole invasion from June 6, 1944, right up to the liberation of Paris on August 25. It is the first book to describe not only the experiences of the American, British, Canadian, and German soldiers, but also the terrible suffering of the French caught up in the fighting. More French civilians were killed by Allied bombing and shelling than British civil
Author: Max Hastings
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: normandy, battle, day, overlord
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2006-01-03
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 030727571X
ISBN-13: 9780307275714
On June 6, 1944, American and British troops staged the greatest amphibious landing in history to begin Operation Overlord, the battle to liberate Europe from the scourge of the Third Reich. With gut-wrenching realism and immediacy, Hastings reveals the terrible human cost that this battle exacted. Moving beyond just the storming of Omaha beach and D-Day, he explores the Allies’ push inward, with many British and American infantry units suffering near 100 percent casualties during the course of that awful summer. Far from a gauzy romanticized remembrance, Hastings details a grueling ten wee
Author: Mr. Jonathan Hull
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Keywords: novel, normandy, distance
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2004-12-03
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0312314132
ISBN-13: 9780312314132
Mead parachuted into Normandy on D-Day and fought his way to Germany, through some of the most brutal violence of World War II. But his most difficult battle was lost years later, when his beloved wife Sophie succumbed to cancer. Since then, he has waged a private war against both loneliness and the terrible memory of a day in 1945 that went horribly wrong-and has haunted him ever since. His grandson Andrew, a scared and angry high school sophomore, has been expelled and is heading down a path of self-destruction. Mead agrees to take the boy in for three weeks, to set him right. At first
Author: Anna Bowman Dodd
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: inns, normandy, three
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2004-06-30
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1419125656
ISBN-13: 9781419125652
Twilight is the classic time, in all French towns and villages, for the al fresco lounge. The cool breath of the dusk is fresh, then, and restful; after the heat and sweat of the long noon the air, as it touches brow and lip, has the charm of a caress. So the door ways and streets were always crowded at this hour, groups moved, separated, formed and re formed, and lingered to exchange their budget of gossip, to call out their "Bonne nuit," the girls to clasp hands, looking longingly over their shoulders at the younger fishermen and farmers; the latter to nod, carelessly, gayly back at them; an
Author: Judy Smith
Publisher: Sigma Leisure
Keywords: normandy, walks, holiday
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2001-07-01
List price: $20.55
ISBN-10: 1850587361
ISBN-13: 9781850587361
Normandy is the ideal destination for a weekend away or for a complete walking holiday - here is a wealth of suggestions - 26 walks described in detail - but to extend your range there are suggestions for more than 100 more! - Enjoy this land of bounty - of cheese and cream, cider and calvados, abbeys and monastries, ancient churches and gothic cathedrals - Discover the beauty and charm of Normandy - from the chalk cliffs of Etretat to the banks of the Seine, from the vast southern forests to the landing beaches of the north. - Long and short walks giving scope for the whole family - Glossary
Author: Steven Zaloga
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Keywords: fortress, normandy, fortifications, day
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2005-11-10
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1841768766
ISBN-13: 9781841768762
German defenses along the Normandy beaches were part of the larger Atlantic Wall fortifications designed to defend Fortress Europe. When Field Marshal Erwin Rommel took command of the invasion front in late 1943, he began a program to enhance fortifications along the Normandy coast as he believed that any Allied assault had to be stopped on the invasion beaches themselves. His most important contribution to the defenses was an extensive program of improvised beach obstructions to complicate any landing attempt. This book analyses these fortifications and describes how the Allied forces overcam
