Book Description
This key title in the acclaimed Battle Zone Normandy series explores the Allies' struggle to take Caen and its significance for the campaign.
Author : Simon Trew
Publisher : History Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 38,85 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750930109
This key title in the acclaimed Battle Zone Normandy series explores the Allies' struggle to take Caen and its significance for the campaign.
Author : Jonathan Fennell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 967 pages
File Size : 12,66 MB
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1107030951
Jonathan Fennell captures for the first time the true wartime experience of the ordinary soldiers from across the empire who made up the British and Commonwealth armies. He analyses why the great battles were won and lost and how the men that fought went on to change the world.
Author : Alexander McKee
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,79 MB
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800559851
Author : J. J. How
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 39,43 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Normandy (France)
ISBN :
Covers major battles between the British/Canadian and German forces (primarily SS Panzer units) for Caen in June/July 1944. Details the Battle for Hill 112-- a crucial piece of terrain in which to gain control of Normandy.
Author : Michael Dale Doubler
Publisher : Fort Leavenworth, Kan. : U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 50,91 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Bocage normand (France)
ISBN :
Author : Phil Yates
Publisher :
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 42,62 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Military miniatures
ISBN : 9780958275552
Author : Mark Zuehlke
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 37,71 MB
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1553659724
The ninth book in the Canadian Battle Series, Breakout from Juno, is the first dramatic chronicling of Canada's pivotal role throughout the entire Normandy Campaign following the D-Day landings. On July 4, 1944, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division won the village of Carpiquet but not the adjacent airfield. Instead of a speedy victory, the men faced a bloody fight. The Canadians advanced relentlessly at a great cost in bloodshed. Within 2 weeks the 2nd Infantry and 4th Armoured divisions joined coming together as the First Canadian Army. The soldiers fought within a narrow landscape extending a mere 21 miles from Caen to Falaise. They won a two-day battle for Verrières Ridge starting on July 21, after 1,500 casualties. More bloody battles followed, until finally, on August 21, the narrowing gap that had been developing at Falaise closed when American and Canadian troops shook hands. The German army in Normandy had been destroyed, only 18,000 of about 400,000 men escaping. The Allies suffered 206,000 casualties, of which 18,444 were Canadians. Breakout from Juno is a story of uncommon heroism, endurance and sacrifice by Canada's World War II volunteer army and pays tribute to Canada's veterans.
Author : Ian Daglish
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 14,94 MB
Release : 2008-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1783034882
This ground-level WWII history describes the British armored offensive into occupied France with rare wartime photos. Military historian Ian Daglish presents an authoritatively detailed chronicle of the greatest armored battle undertaken by the British during the Second World War. After the Normandy Landings, Operation Goodwood sent British tanks south out of the Orne bridgehead. Though the operation failed to break through German defenses, it exposed critical vulnerabilities that would ultimately assist the Allies in the liberation of France. Along with the engaging and informative text, this volume includes newly discovered aerial photos taken during the fighting by the RAF. This amazing imagery makes it possible to trace the course of the battle and to track the movement of the armored regiments and troops of both sides.
Author : John Prados
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 27,56 MB
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1101516615
A military intelligence expert examines the most formative battle of World War II. The Battle of Normandy was the greatest offensive campaign the world had ever seen. Millions of soldiers battling for control of Europe were thrust onto the front lines of a massive war unlike any experienced in history. But the greatest of clashes would prove to be the crucible in which the outcome of World War II would be decided. Author John Prados tells the story of how and why the tactics and battle plans of Normandy proved so formative, and reconstructs the climactic Allied Normandy breakout from both sides of the battle lines.
Author : Lloyd Clark
Publisher : Sutton Pub Limited
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,74 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750930086
Operation 'Epsom, ' launched on June 29, was General Bernard Montgomery's third attempt to take the city of Caen, which had been a key D-Day objective. The attack deployed VIII Corps, consisting of 11th and Guards Armoured Divisions, 15th (Scottish) Division and 6th Independent Armoured Brigade.