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Author : Simon Trew,Stephen Badsey
Publisher : History Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0750930101
This key title in the acclaimed Battle Zone Normandy series explores the Allies' struggle to take Caen and its significance for the campaign.
Author : Lloyd Clark
Publisher : Sutton Pub Limited
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 075093008X
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.
Author : George Forty
Publisher : Sutton Pub Limited
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0750930128
In the week after the D-Day landings, British and Canadian forces in the east were ordered to pin down as many German troops as possible to take the pressure off the Americans, who planned to break out on the western flank. The British commander, Montgomery, wanted to capture Caen, however, and to extend the Allied bridgehead further south. To this end, two battle-hardened divisions were to make a flanking manoeuvre west of Caen, cross the River Odon, break through the enemy positions and take the high ground around Evrecy. 7th Armoured Division, the 'Desert Rats' were to capture Villers Bocage and Evrecy in a 'right hook' while 50th (Tyne Tees) Infantry Division were to take Lingevres and Les Verrieres. Unbeknown to the 'Desert Rats' a number of German Tiger tanks already held the high ground. Led by Waffen-SS tank ace Michael Wittman, these Tigers destroyed almost the entire British advance guard and forced the 'Desert Rats' to withdraw, Wittman's crew accounting for some 25 tanks and other vehicles before being knocked out themselves. At the same time the Geordies of 50th Infantry Division were fighting to take Lingevres and Les Verrieres, ably supported by the tanks of 4/7 Dragoon Guards. Sergeant "Spit" Harris, commanding a Sherman Firefly tank, knocked out no fewer than five Panther tanks, a feat rivalling Wittman's.
Author : Stephen Hart
Publisher : Sutton Pub Limited
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0750930160
This key title in the acclaimed Battle Zone Normandy series explores Operations Totalize and Tractable.
Author : Paul Latawski
Publisher : Spellmount, Limited Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Falaise Gap, Battle of, France, 1944
ISBN : 0752476637
Originally published: Stroud: Sutton, 2004.
Author : Mike Lambo
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798796248027
The Fields of Normandy is an accessible, portable, solitaire "hex and counter" style wargame in a book. Instructions and colour game maps are included; you just need to bring a pencil, 2 standard six-sided dice and an eraser. Nothing else is needed to play. Your task is to order your rifle squads, machine gun teams, mortar teams and PIAT teams across the map to achieve your objectives, countering any enemy threat which is found along the way. The game rules reveal, position and attack with enemy units whilst you focus on your objectives. Clear rules, 15 missions across varied maps with varied enemies provides plenty of replayability as you re-create the Allied push into Normandy in World War II. Good luck, your troops await your orders... Complexity: 2/5 Players: 1 Time: 10 to 40 minutes per mission
Author : Ian Daglish
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783034888
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 : Lloyd Clark
Publisher : D-Day (History Press)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0752476629
Packed with color photographs and detailed maps, the perfect pocket guide to the Normandy battle zone The strengths, weaknesses, and sheer drama of airborne warfare are all encapsulated in the 6th Airborne Division's attacks on Pegasus Bridge and the Merville Battery in Normandy. The lightly armed but highly trained and motivated airborne troops sought to overcome a more heavily armed enemy desperate to unhinge the D-day invasion. Starting with an examination of the 6th Airborne Division, its plan, and the German opposition, Lloyd Clark provides an overview of British operations east of the River Orne from the initial landings in the early hours of June 6, 1944, to the capture of Breville, seven days later. The battlefield tours that follow include not only the famous and dramatic assaults on Pegasus Bridge and the Merville Battery, but also the lesser-known struggles to secure the British southern flank on June 6 and 7 and the Battle of Breville on June 12. Full of color photos and detailed maps, this is the must-have guide for any armchair historian or battlefield tourist.
Author : Michael Dale Doubler
Publisher : Fort Leavenworth, Kan. : U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Bocage normand (France)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105082400412
Author : Jonathan Falconer,Major General Stuart Watson CBE
Publisher : Haynes Publishing UK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1785216554
The landing of Allied forces on the shores of Normandy on 6 June 1944 was the greatest amphibious invasion in history. Technology and innovation played crucial parts in the D-Day drama – from tank-carrying gliders, swimming tanks and the Mulberry harbors, to radio and radar aids that ensured landing craft arrived on the right beaches and combat aircraft overhead were controlled. D-Day Operations Manual describes the development, construction and use of a wide range of innovative machines, structures and systems, explaining their uses on D-Day and after, and revealing how they contributed to the success of 'Overlord.'
Author : Napier Crookenden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Normandy (France)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081197399
Author : Didier Lodieu
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 2352500354
From 5 to 20 July 1944 American invasion forces ran into fierce resistance around the French town of Saint-Lô, an important railway and road communications center in Normandy. As well as the Heer divisions such as the Panzer Lehr, GIs had to fight the redoubtable paratroopers and Waffen-SS who made them pay a heavy price for each hedgerow and each village they managed to take.
Author : Paul Reed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Normandy (France)
ISBN : OCLC:796269575
Author : John Keegan
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:49015000219502
Author : Gary J. Weight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 1909982148
Mettle and Pasture - the story of the part played during the Second World War in Europe by the 2nd Battalion The Lincolnshire Regiment. Entering France in September 1939 as part of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) they witnessed from the front line the blistering attack on Belgium at Louvain and firsthand the German Blitzkrieg beginning on May 10th 1940. Fighting a fierce rearguard action as part of the British 3rd Infantry Division under command of General Montgomery, the Battalion covered the frenzied withdrawal of the British Army through the carnage of Dunkirk, arriving back to the shores of England with less than 25% of their original force. On 6th June 1944, almost four years to the day after the demoralizing evacuation at Dunkirk, the Battalion landed on the coast of Normandy on D-Day. Told in their own words, eyewitness accounts and memoirs are expertly weaved together with official war diaries to recall the experiences of the infantrymen at the front - from the days in France and Belgium in 1939 to the assault on Normandy, spearheading such a great invasion, to resisting and attacking the enemy at Caen and blunting the formidable Panzer counter attacks in the dangerous Normandy Bocage. From 'out of the frying pan and into the fire', come the bitter battles in Belgium and Holland, the attrition of holding the Maas River during the coldest winter in living memory, and finally on into Germany, fighting the SS around Bremen just hours before hostilities ended on the 8th May 1945. Vivid accounts tell tales of courage and fear, individual sacrifice and how soldiers faced up to the enemy under fire, sharing danger and surviving the savage conditions but also of the pride and honor of belonging to such a famous and historic regiment - The Lincolnshire Regiment. With an abundance of previously unpublished photographs and clear, concise maps of the battlefields, this is the story of the war the way it really was for an infantryman - told by the men who were there.