Normandy Beyond The Beaches
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Normandy Beyond The Beaches

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Normandy Beyond The Beaches

About this book

This latest Images of War series book examines the controversial development of the Allied campaign in Normandy in the weeks after the D-Day landings. After overcoming Rommel's beach obstacles and 'Atlantic Wall' fortifications, a secure Allied lodgment of the five beaches developed along the Caen-Bayeux-Carentan axis with a period of consolidation while reinforcements and supplies were built up. The early arrival of 12th SS Hitlerjugend, 21st Panzer and the Panzer Lehr Divisions delayed Montgomery's Anglo-Canadian capture of Caen until mid-July and prevented an early breakout into the countryside inland from Gold, Juno and Sword which was suitable for armored combat. An early American goal was to cut the Cotentin Peninsula in two at its southern base to prevent the Germans from supplying and strengthening the deep-water port of Cherbourg, which U.S. VII Corps captured on 26 June. Inland from Omaha and Utah, the close 'bocage' country proved advantageous to the German defenders. The Allied breakout occurred at the end of July with Bradley's Operation COBRA near St. Lo followed by the entire Allied front first moving to close the Falaise Gap before heading southward and then pivoting to the east for the capture of the Seine River crossings. These crucial and testing weeks for the Allies are described in graphic contemporary images with full captions and authoritative text.

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Information

Publisher
Pen and Sword
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781399032070
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Abbreviations
  7. Chapter One: Strategic Situation and Aims of the Normandy Campaign
  8. Chapter Two: The Allied Landings at Normandy, 5–6 June 1944
  9. Chapter Three: Commanders and Combatants
  10. Chapter Four: Initial Inland Movements from the Beaches
  11. Chapter Five: US First Army’s Capture of Cherbourg and Movement Towards St Lô
  12. Chapter Six: The Anglo-Canadian Siege of Caen and the Falaise-Argentan ‘Pocket’
  13. Epilogue
  14. Bibliography