Normandy ’44: D-Day and the Battle for France 1787631273, 9781787631274, 9781473564077

Table of contents :
List of Maps
Maps
Principal Personalities
Gallery of Portraits
Foreword
Prologue

Part I: The Battle Before D-Day
1   The Atlantic Wall
2   Command of the Skies
3   Understanding Montgomery and the Master Plan
4   Countdown
5   The Winds of War
6   Big War
7   Air Power

Part II: Invasion
8   D-Day Minus One
9   D-Day: The First Hours
10   D-Day: Dawn
11   D-Day: The American Landings
12   D-Day: The British and Canadian Landings
13   D-Day: The Turning of the Battle
14   D-Day: Foothold

Part III: Attrition
15   Bridgehead
16   Fighter-Bomber Racecourse
17   Linking Up
18   The Constraints of Wealth and the Freedom of Poverty
19   Behind the Lines
20   The Grinding Battle
21   The Great Storm
22   EPSOM
23   Cherbourg and the Scottish Corridor
24   Trouble at the Top
25   Bloody Bocage
26   Living Like Foxes

Part IV: Breakout
27   A Brief Discourse On Weapons And the Operational Level of War
28   Crisis of Command
29   GOODWOOD
30   Saint-Lô
31   COBRA
32   BLUECOAT
33   LÜTTICH
34   Tank Battle At Saint-Aignan
35   The Corridor of Death

Postscript

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