Six Armies in Normandy : From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris; June 6 - Aug. 5, 1944; Revised

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Edition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 1994-06-01
Publisher(s): Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Summary

The armies of six nations met on the battlefields of Normandy in what was to be the greatest Allied achievement of World War II. With dramatic, driving power, John Keegan describes the massed armies-American, Canadian, English, French, German, and Polish-at successive stages of the invasion. As he details the strategies of the military engagements, Keegan brilliantly shows how each of the armies reflected its own nation's values and traditions. In a new introduction written especially to commemorate the 50th anniversary of D-Day, he contemplates the ways the events in Normandy still reverberate today.

Table of Contents

Illustrations and Credits
viii
Foreword xi
Acknowledgments xii
Introduction xiv
Prologue In the Invasion Area 1(20)
Journey to the Second Front
21(48)
Stilwell
22(9)
Wedemeyer
31(3)
Eisenhower
34(4)
Molotov
38(3)
Marshall
41(6)
Brooke
47(8)
Montgomery
55(4)
Rommel
59(10)
All-American Screaming Eagles
69(46)
Flight
76(10)
Descent
86(2)
Landing
88(1)
Gathering
89(4)
Action
93(22)
The 3rd/505th at Ste Mere-Eglise
93(6)
The 1st/505th at the Merderet
99(3)
The 2nd/507th at Cauquigny
102(3)
The 3rd/506th at the Douve Bridges
105(3)
The 1st/502nd at WXYZ
108(2)
The 3rd/501st at Pouppeville
110(5)
Canada: to the South Shore
115(28)
Dieppe: the Awful Warning
120(5)
Fire Support
125(3)
The German Defenders
128(3)
Bombardment
131(2)
Run-in
133(3)
Touch-down
136(3)
Inland
139(4)
Scottish Corridor
143(40)
The Fight of the Panzer Divisions
143(11)
The March to the Battlefield
154(4)
The Fall of Cherbourg
158(2)
The Great Storm
160(4)
Epsom
164(2)
Scotland the Brave
166(4)
Finding the Enemy
170(6)
Across the River
176(7)
Yeomen of England
183(38)
Planning a Break-through
189(4)
The Waiting Armour
193(4)
Moving Up
197(3)
Bombardment
200(3)
Into the Corridor
203(2)
Battle Group von Luck
205(5)
Counter-attack
210(6)
Repercussions
216(5)
The Honour of the German Army
221(28)
Break-through
230(4)
Patton
234(4)
The Will of the Fuhrer
238(3)
Operation Luttich
241(8)
`A Polish Battlefield'
249(34)
`The Worst Day of My Life'
255(5)
Command Indecision
260(2)
General Sikorski's Tourists
262(7)
Contact at Chambois
269(6)
The Mace
275(8)
Free France
283(30)
Insurrection
287(5)
Truce
292(3)
De Gaulle
295(4)
La Division Leclerc
299(5)
Liberation
304(9)
Epilogue From the Atlantic Wall to the Iron Curtain 313(22)
Appendix: British, American and German Divisions in Normandy, June 6th-August 25th, 1944 335(6)
References 341(4)
Select Bibliography 345(6)
Index 351(12)
Index of Formations and Units 363

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