Normandy Crucible : The Decisive Battle That Shaped World War II in Europe
ISBN: 9780451236944 | 0451236947
Format: PaperbackPublisher: NAL Trade
Pub. Date: 7/3/2012
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The Battle of Normandy was the greatest offensive campaign the world had ever seen. It was also the crucible of combat tactics and logistic techniques that would decide the outcome of World War II... The Battle of Normandy began on D-Day. June 6, 1944—the day that the Allied forces launched the great crusade to free Europe from the iron grip of Nazi Germany. Tightly constricted hedgerow country and bitter German resistance held the Allied advance to a crawl—until they broke through and trapped the Nazi armies. Yet within weeks of this st... MORE
| Introduction | p. ix |
| Prologue: The Decision | p. 1 |
| German Nightmares | p. 13 |
| Allied Anxieties | p. 50 |
| The Beginning of Disaster | p. 89 |
| A Hurricane of Steel | p. 111 |
| All the Führer's Horses | p. 159 |
| The Cauldron | p. 200 |
| Normandy Crucible | p. 252 |
| Appendix | p. 271 |
| Endnotes | p. 281 |
| ... MORE | p. 297 |
| Index | p. 309 |
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Dr. John Prados is a senior research fellow on national security affairs, including foreign affairs, intelligence, and military subjects, at the National Security Archive. He also directs the Archive’s Iraq Documentation Project, as well as its Vietnam Project. He holds a PhD in International Relations from Columbia University. His books Vietnam: The History of an Unwinnable War, 1945–1975, Keepers of the Keys, and Combined Fleet Decoded were each nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He has published articles with Vanity Fair, The Journal of American History, Scientific American, MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe.
