Invasion 1944
Title | Invasion 1944 PDF eBook |
Author | Hans Speidel |
Publisher | Praeger |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 1950 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Rommel's Last Battle
Title | Rommel's Last Battle PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel W. Mitcham |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Marshals |
ISBN |
Rommel's Last Battle
Title | Rommel's Last Battle PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel W. Mitcham |
Publisher | Stein & Day Paperback |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 1983-05-01 |
Genre | Marshals |
ISBN | 9780812882506 |
The Desert Fox and the Normandy campaign
D-Day
Title | D-Day PDF eBook |
Author | Rick Atkinson |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2014-05-06 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1627791116 |
Presents a young reader's adaptation of "The Guns at Last Light," tracing the Battle of Normandy and the Allied liberation of Western Europe through the end of World War II.
Invasion 1944: Rommel and the Normandy Campaign
Title | Invasion 1944: Rommel and the Normandy Campaign PDF eBook |
Author | Lt.-Gen. Hans Speidel |
Publisher | Pickle Partners Publishing |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2016-07-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1787200019 |
Lieutenant-General Hans Speidel’s Invasion 1944 tells the story, from the German viewpoint, of one of the most critical periods of World War II. Indeed, to most Americans the summer months of 1944, highlighted by the battles on the Normandy beaches, represent the climax of the world convulsion. Every detail of this epic struggle is today of interest not only to those Americans who participated personally in the battles on the beaches and in the Normandy countryside, but to that still greater number who sweated and bled in Italy, on South Pacific isles, or in the Philippines, or were forced to stay at home. For the Norman beaches have now become a keystone in the arch of American military tradition—worthy to stand alongside Chancellorsville, Appomattox, Château-Thierry and the Meuse-Argonne. Our curiosity, therefore, cannot but be piqued as to what went on in the Château La Roche Guyon, the headquarters of the German Army Group opposing the Allied Normandy armies, as, day by day, American and British pressure brought Hitler’s doom nearer. Invasion is by no means merely military history, a record of the estimates and orders of the German Command during the Normandy struggle. This book tells a double story. The battles are the background, while the foreground is dominated by the narrative of another climactic struggle, that between the commander of the Army Group, Erwin Rommel, “the Desert Fox,” and his overlord Adolf Hitler. “A notable contribution to the...literature on the Normandy campaign. The author was Chief of Staff successively to Rommel, Kluge and Model.... What he has to say about the German defeat is authoritative and of high interest.”—New York Herald Tribune Book Review
The Normandy Campaign 1944
Title | The Normandy Campaign 1944 PDF eBook |
Author | John Buckley |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2006-07-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134203047 |
With essays from leading names in military history, this new book re-examines the crucial issues and debates of the D-Day campaign. It tackles a range of core topics, placing them in their current historiographical context, to present new and sometimes revisionist interpretations of key issues, such as the image of the Allied armies compared with the Germans, the role of air power, and the lessons learned by the military from their operations. As the Second World War is increasingly becoming a field of revisionism, this book sits squarely within growing debates, shedding new light on topics and bringing current thinking from our leading military and strategic historians to a wider audience. This book will be of great interest to students of the Second World War, and of military and strategic studies in general.
War Stories of D-Day
Title | War Stories of D-Day PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Green |
Publisher | Quarto Publishing Group USA |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2009-10-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1616732512 |
D-Day, June 6, 1944: it was the biggest amphibious operation in history. German Field Marshal Rommel, declared, “the enemy must be annihilated before he reaches our main battlefield,” the Allied Forces undertook a massive invasion of the German-occupied coast of Normandy, France. First, there was the aerial onslaught by British and American airborne divisions, then the landing of the American, British, and Canadian seaborne troops. Over 150,000 Allied troops took the fight to the enemy, their incursion paving the way to their ultimate victory over Nazi tyranny. This book tells the story of those who lived and fought through this historic conflict. In first-person accounts of the Normandy landings, soldiers recreate the harrowing, world-changing drama of taking the beaches of France, dropping from the sky, wading out of landing craft, fighting to survive and, in the process, keeping alight the hopes of humanity.