Soldier, sailor, frogman, spy, airman, gangster, kill or die : how the Allies won on D-day /
An epic battle that involved 156,000 Allied men, 7,000 ships and 20,000 armored vehicles fighting against the might of the German war machine, D-Day was, above all, a tale of individual heroics, of men who were driven to keep fighting until the German defenses were smashed and the precarious beachhe...
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New York :
Henry Holt and Company,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Know thy enemy. Behind enemy lines ; Atlantic wall ; The weather report ; Codebreaking
- Part II: Midnight. The midnight hour ; At German headquarters ; Landing by moonlight
- Part III: The night. Sainte-Mère-Église ; Night assault ; First light
- Part IV: Dawn. On Utah beach ; In coastal waters ; Omaha ; Easy red
- Part V: Foothold. Gold ; Juno ; Cliff-top guns ; The mad bastard
- Part VI: Towards noon. Deadlock on Omaha ; Cracks in the wall ; Race to the bridge
- Part VII: Afternoon. The bombing of Caen ; Counter-attack ; Victory at Omaha
- Part VIII: Win or lose. Frontier fighting ; Panzer attack ; Twilight ; Night.