Title: Cross-channel attack /
Authors: Harrison, Gordon A.; Center of Military History
Publisher: Center of Military History, U.S. Army : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., ,
Year: 2002
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns France Normandy.; World War, 1939-1945 Amphibious operations.; United States History, Military.
Contents: The roots of strategy. General Marshall's Project. The Casablanca Conference -- Outline Overlord (January-July 1943). The COSSAC Plans -- Overlord in the balance (August-December 1943). Strategy reviewed: the Quebec Conference. The Cairo-Tehran Conferences -- The German army in France, 1940-1943 -- Overlord revised. The Anvil-Overlord debate. The Neptune Plans -- Preliminary operations. The French Resistance -- German Defense measures, 1944. OKW Policy in 1944 -- The sixth of June. The D-Day beachhead -- The V Corps lodgment (7-18 June). The Caumont Gap. Toward St. Lô -- The capture of Cherbourg (8 June-1 July).