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D-Day : those who were there / Juliet Gardiner.
Author
Gardiner, Juliet, 1943-
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Language
English
Published/Created
London : Collins & Brown, 1994.
Description
192 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
D756.5.N6 G372 1994
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Operation Overlord
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World War, 1939-1945
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France
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Normandy
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Normandy (France)
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History, Military
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Summary note
D-Day: 6 June 1944, the day the Allied troops landed on the Normandy beaches and degan the final assault on Hilter's "Fortress Europe."
The logistics of landing almost 250,000 men on a 60-mile stretch of heavily fortified coastline are almost unimaginable. By Whitsun 1944, Britain had began to resemble a vast military warehouse, with jeeps and trucks parked along what seemed like every road in the south and west of England, tanks ranked in carparks and forecourts, and rows upon rows of bombs stored under tarpaulin in fields - all labelled "Europe". The roads were jammed with soldiers in transit, all trains were requisitioned for the troops, and women knew that their menfolk 'somewhere in southern England' might be one of that perilous first wave across the Channel.
D-Day: Those who were there is about the impact that the preparations for the invasion of Normandy, and the final assault, had on the lives of the people of Britain - the soldiers, sailors and airmen, and the civilians too, and those in charge of Operation OVERLORD, who knew that the price to be paid in lives for the invasion was going to be a high one."--pub. desc.
Notes
"Based on a Studio Z television production for Meridian Broadcasting and Westcountry Television."
Bibliographic references
Inlcudes bibliographical references (p. 185-187) and index.
Contents
'We will go back'
Dress rehearsal for disaster
The Yanks are coming
Planning and deceiving
Putting the jigsaw together
The arsenal of invasion
Taking to the boats
The far shore : Utah and Omaha
The far shore : Gold, Juno and Sword
A nation waits.
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ISBN
1855852047
9781855852044
185585208X ((pbk.))
9781855852082 ((pbk.))
LCCN
95148973
OCLC
30699632
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