Description: Normandy depicts the planning and execution of Operation Overlord in 96 full-color pages. The initial paratrooper assault is shown, as well as the storming of the five DDay beaches: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword. But the story does not end there. Once the Allies got ashore, they had to stay ashore. The Germans made every effort to push them back into the sea. This book depicts the such key events in the Allied liberation of Europe as: 1. Construction of the Mulberry Harbors, two giant artificial harbors built in England and floated across the English Channel so that troops, vehicles, and supplies could be offloaded across the invasion beaches. 2. The Capture of Cherbourg, the nearest French port, against a labyrinth of Gennan pillboxes. 3. The American fight through the heavy bocage (hedgerow country) to take the vital town of Saint-Lo. 4. The British-Canadian struggle for the city of Caen against the "Hitler Youth Division," made up of 23,000 seventeen- and eighteen-year-old Nazi fanatics. 5. The breakout of General Patton's Third Army and the desperate US 30th Division's defense of Mortaine. 6. The Falaise Pocket, known as the "Killing Ground, " where the remnants of two German armies were trapped and bombed and shelled into submission. The slaughter was so great that 5,000 Germans were buried in one mass grave. 7. The Liberation of Paris, led by the 2nd Free French Armored Division, which had been fighting for four long years with this goal in mind.
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EAN: 9780760343920
UPC: 9780760343920
ISBN: 9780760343920
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Format: Paperback, 104 pages
Author: Vansant, Wayne
Book Title: Normandy: A Graphic History of D-Day, the Allied I
Item Height: 1.3 cm
Item Length: 22.6 cm
Item Weight: 0.18 kg
Item Width: 15 cm
Language: English
Era: Modern Age (1992-Now)
Artist/Writer: Wayne Vansant
Cover Artist: Wayne Vansant
Publisher: Zenith Press
Genre: War, Non-Fiction
Publication Year: 2012
Character: Sir Bertram Ramsay, General Erwin Rommel, Norman Cota, Erwin Rommel, Stanley Hollis, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Hans Von Luck, Sir Arthur Tedder, Michael Wittmann, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, John D. Kelly, Sir Frederick Morgan, Ronald Woody, Adolf Hitler, Philippe Vaisseau Kieffer, Carlos C. Ogden, Simon Christopher John Fraser, Dietrich Von Choltitz, Jacques-Philippe De Hauteclocque, Josef Stalin, Kurt Meyer, Omar Bradley, Lafayette Pool, Lawton Collins, Charles De Gaulle, George A. Taylor, Tom Howie, George S. Patton
Series Title: Normandy: a Graphic History of D-Day
