The Americans at Normandy: The Summer of 1944--The American War from the Normandy Beaches to Falaise 0765311992, 9780765311993

In The Americans at D-Day, the first volume of this series, John C. McManus showed us the American experience in Operati

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The Americans at Normandy: The Summer of 1944--The American War from the Normandy Beaches to Falaise
0765311992, 9780765311993

This classic Images of War book takes up the story of the massive American contribution to the campaign in north West Eu

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“It was the [allied armies’] valor, their endurance, and their ability to adapt that won the battle of Normandy and laun

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An operational critique of the art of war as practiced by U.S. and Canadian tank commanders in France in 1944, Tank Tact

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More than 150 Canadian soldiers were brutally murdered in 1944 after capture by the 12th SS Division 'Hitler Youth.

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What happened to the Allied armies in Normandy in the months after D-Day? Why, after the initial success of the landings

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Part history book and part travel guide, D-Day Gunners is aimed at anyone interested in the artillery on the D-Day beach

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Lieutenant-General Hans Speidel's Invasion 1944 tells the story, from the German viewpoint, of one of the most crit

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An authoritative and fresh new study of Allied tanks' role in smashing the walls of Fortress Europe on D-Day. Alli

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Just as the Anglo-Canadian forces in the east found it difficult to advance beyond Caen after D-Day, so the US First Arm

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