Invasion '44
The Full Story of D-Day
Published on 30. April 2014
198 pages
978-1-4738-3673-0 (ISBN)
Description
In the pre-dawn darkness of 6 June 1944, the greatest armada the world has ever seen began to disembark an Allied invasion force on the beaches of France's Normandy peninsula. Invasion '44 tells the story of that assault from the day over four years earlier, and only a few short weeks after the British disaster at Dunkirk, when a few individuals in the High Command began to turn their thoughts to the possibilities of an eventual return to the mainland, and the story continues up to the time when the Allied beach-head was firmly established on French soil. As the battle progresses, the reader is allowed to view each successive wave as it lands, follow the developing battle line inland, and keep an eye on the vital battles also developing on and beneath the seas off the Normandy peninsula and in the skies above it.
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Content
- Intro
- Half Title
- Full Title
- Copyright Page
- Preface
- Contents
- 1. From Dunkirk to Dieppe
- 2. The Mulberries are born
- 3. Trial and Error
- 4. Enter Eisenhower, Montgomery-and Rommel
- 5. The Air Onslaught and Enemy Mining
- 6. Monty's Master Plan
- 7. Sixty Blockships and Two Midget Subs
- 8. The Weather worsens
- 9. D - 1: the Armada sails
- 10. First Blood to the Skymen
- 11. The Yanks Ashore
- 12. Hell on Omaha
- 13. Death on Dog Green
- 14. The British land-with Tanks
- 15. The Commandos storm in
- 16. "Get the Hell out of Here"
- 17. The Paratroops hold firm
- 18. Beyond the Beachhead
- 19. The Harbours set sail
- 20. The Great Storm
- 21. Hitler's Final Fling
- Index
