The Normandy Campaign 1944
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Hoboken
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780203028889
Subjects: Campaigns; World War, 1939-1945; Normandy
Description: Examines the issues and debates of the D-Day campaign. This book presents interpretations of key issues, such as the image of the Allied armies compared with the Germans, the role of air power, and the lessons learned by the military from their operations. It is useful to students of the Second World War, and of military and strategic studies.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Book Cover; Half-Title; Series-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The 21st Army Group in Normandy: Towards a new balance sheet; 2 The German perspective; 3 The German commanders on D-Day; 4 Culture, controversy, Caen and Cherbourg: The first week of the battle; 5 American tactical innovation in Normandy, 1944; 6 British armoured operations in Normandy, June-August 1944; 7 Operation BLUECOAT; title: a victory ignored; 8 'The black day unrealised': Operation TOTALIZE and the problems of translating tactical success into a decisive breakout.; title: 9 Dead cows and tigers: Some aspects of the experience of the British soldier in Normandy, 194410 The Luftwaffe in Normandy; 11 Arthur Tedder and the transportation plans; 12 Caen; title: the martyred city; 13 Deception and the planning of D-Day; 14 Intelligence and OVERLORD: A snapshot from June 1944; 15 Reconstructing D-Day: 6 June 1944 and British documentary films; 16 D-Day in Hollywood motion pictures: A brief histroy of changing.