The Americans In Brittany 1944
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Author |
: Jonathan Gawne |
Publisher |
: Histoire Et Collections |
Total Pages |
: 160 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 2913903215 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9782913903210 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Americans in Brittany, 1944 by : Jonathan Gawne
"Considered by many of the participants to have been the most intense combat in Europe, the Americans of the 2nd, 8th and 29th Infantry Divisions faced elite German paratroopers ... fight for the Brittany ports. The German defenders were under command of the renowned paratroop General Ramcke, who was ordered by Hitler to hold to the last man? The Brittany campaign became a textbook example of the value of armored units exploiting a breakthrough. For a few days in the summer of 1944, the world?s attention was on the American breakout into Brittany, then the focus shifted to the encirclement of the German Army in the Falaise pocket and the fighting in Brittany was forgotten? Official reports, interwoven with the memories of veterans, bring this important struggle to life. Long thought of as a sideshow, Gawne makes a case for a renewed study of the action, which may have had a far-reaching impact on the Allied supply situation. Heavily illustrated with period photos, uniform reconstructions, maps, and tables of organization, this book provides a long sought overview of the American involvement in this ... fight"--Page 4 of cover.
Author |
: Steven J. Zaloga |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 97 |
Release |
: 2018-04-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781472827371 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1472827376 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Brittany 1944 by : Steven J. Zaloga
One of the prime objectives for the Allies following the D-Day landings was the capture of sufficient ports to supply their armies. The original Overlord plans assumed that ports along the Breton coast would be essential to expansion of the Normandy beach-head. This included the major ports at Brest and on Quiberon Bay. The newly arrived Third US Army (TUSA) under Lt. Gen. George S. Patton was delegated to take on the Brittany mission. In one of the most rapid mechanized advances of the war, TUSA had the ports of Avranches and Quiberon encircled by the second week of August 1944. But changing priorities meant that most of TUSA was redeployed, meaning only a single corps was left to take the Breton port cities. The fight would drag into 1945, long after German field armies had been driven from France. Using full color maps and artwork as well as contemporary accounts and photographs, Brittany 1944 is the fascinating story of the siege of Germany's last bastions on the French Atlantic coast.
Author |
: Joseph Balkoski |
Publisher |
: Stackpole Books |
Total Pages |
: 408 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0811733777 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780811733779 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Utah Beach by : Joseph Balkoski
The attack on Utah Beach during the Normandy invasion was one of the most successful military operations ever undertaken, especially bearing in mind the complexities of such a massive air & seaborne assault. Joseph Balkoski describes the unfolding drama.
Author |
: Michael Dale Doubler |
Publisher |
: Fort Leavenworth, Kan. : U.S. Army Command and General Staff College |
Total Pages |
: 92 |
Release |
: 1988 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105082400412 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Busting the Bocage by : Michael Dale Doubler
Author |
: Joseph Balkoski |
Publisher |
: Stackpole Books |
Total Pages |
: 434 |
Release |
: 2008-02-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780811740500 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0811740501 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis From Beachhead to Brittany by : Joseph Balkoski
Engaging history of a controversial World War II battle. Brilliantly researched and compellingly written by a top military historian.
Author |
: Mark Greenside |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 259 |
Release |
: 2008-11-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781416586876 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1416586873 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis I'll Never Be French (no Matter what I Do) by : Mark Greenside
Author and teacher Mark Greenside recounts his struggles to fit into the life of a small Celtic village in Brittany.
Author |
: David Sellin |
Publisher |
: Universe Pub |
Total Pages |
: 230 |
Release |
: 1982-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0910407002 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780910407007 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Americans in Brittany and Normandy, 1860-1910 by : David Sellin
Shows and describes paintings by Americans working in western France
Author |
: Stephen E. Ambrose |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 528 |
Release |
: 2013-04-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781476740256 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1476740259 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Citizen Soldiers by : Stephen E. Ambrose
From Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bitterest days of World War II. In this riveting account, historian Stephen E. Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 bestseller D-Day. Citizen Soldiers opens at 0001 hours, June 7, 1944, on the Normandy beaches, and ends at 0245 hours, May 7, 1945, with the allied victory. It is biography of the US Army in the European Theater of Operations, and Ambrose again follows the individual characters of this noble, brutal, and tragic war. From the high command down to the ordinary soldier, Ambrose draws on hundreds of interviews to re-create the war experience with startling clarity and immediacy. From the hedgerows of Normandy to the overrunning of Germany, Ambrose tells the real story of World War II from the perspective of the men and women who fought it.
Author |
: Mary Louise Roberts |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 364 |
Release |
: 2013-05-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226923093 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226923096 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis What Soldiers Do by : Mary Louise Roberts
How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? Do you appeal to their bonds with their fellow soldiers, their patriotism, their desire to end tyranny and mass murder? Certainly—but if you’re the US Army in 1944, you also try another tack: you dangle the lure of beautiful French women, waiting just on the other side of the wire, ready to reward their liberators in oh so many ways. That’s not the picture of the Greatest Generation that we’ve been given, but it’s the one Mary Louise Roberts paints to devastating effect in What Soldiers Do. Drawing on an incredible range of sources, including news reports, propaganda and training materials, official planning documents, wartime diaries, and memoirs, Roberts tells the fascinating and troubling story of how the US military command systematically spread—and then exploited—the myth of French women as sexually experienced and available. The resulting chaos—ranging from flagrant public sex with prostitutes to outright rape and rampant venereal disease—horrified the war-weary and demoralized French population. The sexual predation, and the blithe response of the American military leadership, also caused serious friction between the two nations just as they were attempting to settle questions of long-term control over the liberated territories and the restoration of French sovereignty. While never denying the achievement of D-Day, or the bravery of the soldiers who took part, What Soldiers Do reminds us that history is always more useful—and more interesting—when it is most honest, and when it goes beyond the burnished beauty of nostalgia to grapple with the real lives and real mistakes of the people who lived it.
Author |
: Joseph Balkoski |
Publisher |
: Stackpole Books |
Total Pages |
: 402 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780811711692 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0811711692 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Our Tortured Souls by : Joseph Balkoski
Balkoski's acclaimed multi-volume history of the U.S. 29th Infantry Division in World War II covers the division's vital role in the U.S. Army's November offensive, which Gen. Omar Bradley hoped would get the Allies to the Rhine River by Christmas. A riveting story of heroism and tragedy.