Making Sense Of Normandy

Author : E. Carver McGriff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781592993048
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Sense of Normandy written by E. Carver McGriff and published by . This book was released on 2007-09-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carver McGriff was 19 years old when he left Indiana and his innocence behind to join in the battle for freedom on one of the most important and bloodiest battlefields of World War II. In this book, McGriff gives a veteran's rare, first-hand account of the harsh realities of WWII combat-- not only the struggle for physical survival, but for emotional and spiritual survival as well.

Author : George Wilson
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307775259
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book If You Survive written by George Wilson and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010-11-10 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If you survive your first day, I'll promote you." So promised George Wilson's World War II commanding officer in the hedgerows of Normandy -- and it was to be a promise dramatically fulfilled. From July, 1944, to the closing days of the war, from the first penetration of the Siegfried Line to the Nazis' last desperate charge in the Battle of the Bulge, Wilson fought in the thickest of the action, helping take the small towns of northern France and Belgium building by building. Of all the men and officers who started out in Company F of the 4th Infantry Division with him, Wilson was the only one who finished. In the end, he felt not like a conqueror or a victor, but an exhausted survivor, left with nothing but his life -- and his emotions. If You Survive One of the great first-person accounts of the making of a combat veteran, in the last, most violent months of World War II.

Author : Wayne Vansant
Publisher : Zenith Press
ISBN 13 : 0760343926
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Normandy written by Wayne Vansant and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Normandy depicts the planning and execution of Operation Overlord in 96 full-color pages. The initial paratrooper assault is shown, as well as the storming of the five D-Day beaches: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword. But the story does not end there. Once the Allies got ashore, they had to stay ashore. The Germans made every effort to push them back into the sea. This book depicts the such key events in the Allied liberation of Europe as: 1. Construction of the Mulberry Harbors, two giant artificial harbors built in England and floated across the English Channel so that troops, vehicles, and supplies could be offloaded across the invasion beaches.2. The Capture of Cherbourg, the nearest French port, against a labyrinth of Gennan pillboxes.3. The American fight through the heavy bocage (hedgerow country) to take the vital town of Saint-Lô.4. The British-Canadian struggle for the city of Caen against the “Hitler Youth Division,” made up of 23,000 seventeen- and eighteen-year-old Nazi fanatics.5. The breakout of General Patton’s Third Army and the desperate US 30th Division’s defense of Mortaine.6. The Falaise Pocket, known as the “Killing Ground, ” where the remnants of two German armies were trapped and bombed and shelled into submission. The slaughter was so great that 5,000 Germans were buried in one mass grave. 7. The Liberation of Paris, led by the 2nd Free French Armored Division, which had been fighting for four long years with this goal in mind.

Author : Richard Hargreaves
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1781594708
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Germans in Normandy written by Richard Hargreaves and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2006-11-06 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of the D-Day invasion—from the German point of view—includes maps and photos. The Allied invasion of Northern France was the greatest combined operation in the history of warfare. Up until now, it has been recorded from the attackers’ point of view—whereas the defenders’ angle has been largely ignored. While the Germans knew an invasion was inevitable, no one knew where or when it would fall. Those manning Hitler’s mighty Atlantic Wall may have felt secure in their bunkers, but they had no conception of the fury and fire that was about to break. After the initial assaults of June established an Allied bridgehead, a state of stalemate prevailed. The Germans fought with great courage—hindered by lack of supplies and overwhelming Allied control of the air. This book describes the catastrophe that followed, in a unique look at the war from the losing side.

Author : Ted Fahrenwald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bailout Over Normandy written by Ted Fahrenwald and published by . This book was released on 2023-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A suspenseful WWII page-turner and an enormously witty tale of camaraderie and collusion, Ted Fahrenwald's memoir takes you behind the scenes to offer unique insights into the daily courage and intrigues of the French Resistance and various Allies as they battled the vicious German occupiers-and suffered the violent retribution that was often the result. At 22, Ted was a daredevil pilot on his 100th mission when he bailed out of his burning Mustang two days after D-Day. Parachuting into the Nazi-infested farmland of Normandy, he was immediately picked up by the Maquis, the rural guerrilla arm of the Resistance. His wily and gregarious personality, high-school French, and backwoods skills helped him forge deep and lifelong friendships with these heroic patriots. Ted joined them on their night-time raids and relished their frequent parties fueled by home-brewed Calvados brandy. But he was determined to rejoin his squadron in England, so he left his helpers to hike north through heavily occupied forests toward the Channel Coast and the advancing Allied liberation armies. Captured by the Wehrmacht, interrogated as a spy, and interned in a POW camp, he made a daring escape just before his scheduled deportation to Germany. Being drafted by the unruly Maquis and captured by the German army didn't diminish Ted's talent for spotting the ironic humor in even the most aggravating situations-nor his penchant for extracting his own improvised and sometimes hilarious version of justice.

Author : Mary Louise Roberts
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022613704X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book D-Day Through French Eyes written by Mary Louise Roberts and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-05-16 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A moving examination of how French civilians experienced the fighting” at Normandy during WWII from the acclaimed author of What Soldiers Do (Telegraph, UK). “Like big black umbrellas, they rain down on the fields across the way, and then disappear behind the black line of the hedges.” Silent parachutes dotting the night sky—that’s how one Normandy woman learned that the D-Day invasion was under way in June of 1944. Though they yearned for liberation, the French had to steel themselves for war, knowing that their homes, lands, and fellow citizens would have to bear the brunt of the attack. With D-Day through French Eyes, Mary Louise Roberts turns the conventional narrative of D-Day on its head, taking readers across the Channel to view the invasion anew. Roberts builds her history from an impressive range of gripping first-person accounts by French citizens throughout the region. A farm family notices that cabbage is missing from their garden—then discovers that the guilty culprits are American paratroopers hiding in the cowshed. Fishermen rescue pilots from the wreck of their B-17, then search for clothes big enough to disguise them as civilians. A young man learns to determine whether a bomb is whistling overhead or silently plummeting toward them. When the allied infantry arrived, French citizens guided them to hidden paths and little-known bridges, giving them crucial advantages over the German occupiers. As she did in her acclaimed account of GIs in postwar France, What Soldiers Do, Roberts here sheds vital new light on a story we thought we knew. "In the great tradition of Studs Terkel and Is Paris Burning?, Mary Louise Roberts uses the diaries and memoirs of French civilians to narrate a history of the French at D-Day that has for too long been occluded by the mythology of the allied landing.”—Alice Kaplan, author of Dreaming in French

Author : James Holland
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802148964
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Normandy '44 written by James Holland and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the 75th anniversary of D-Day, a new history of the momentous Normandy campaign with fresh insights from award-winning historian James Holland D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the seventy-six days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the west--the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. Yet as familiar as it is, as James Holland makes clear in his definitive history, many parts of the OVERLORD campaign, as it was known, are still shrouded in myth and assumed knowledge. Drawing freshly on widespread archives and on the testimonies of eye-witnesses, Holland relates the extraordinary planning that made Allied victory in France possible; indeed, the story of how hundreds of thousands of men, and mountains of materiel, were transported across the English Channel, is as dramatic a human achievement as any battlefield exploit. The brutal landings on the five beaches and subsequent battles across the plains and through the lanes and hedgerows of Normandy--a campaign that, in terms of daily casualties, was worse than any in World War I--come vividly to life in conferences where the strategic decisions of Eisenhower, Rommel, Montgomery, and other commanders were made, and through the memories of paratrooper Lieutenant Dick Winters of Easy Company, British corporal and tanker Reg Spittles, Thunderbolt pilot Archie Maltbie, German ordnance officer Hans Heinze, French resistance leader Robert Leblanc, and many others. For both sides, the challenges were enormous. The Allies confronted a disciplined German army stretched to its limit, which nonetheless caused tactics to be adjusted on the fly. Ultimately ingenuity, determination, and immense materiel strength--delivered with operational brilliance--made the difference. A stirring narrative by a pre-eminent historian, Normandy '44 offers important new perspective on one of history's most dramatic military engagements and is an invaluable addition to the literature of war.

Author : John A. English
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811744379
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Surrender Invites Death written by John A. English and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2011-02-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What it was like to fight Hitler's ideological troops in Normandy starting on D-Day, June 6, 1944.

Author : Claude Stahl
Publisher : Medialuck Publishing Ltd.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book D-Day Repulsed written by Claude Stahl and published by Medialuck Publishing Ltd.. This book was released on 2019-02-08 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the spring of 1944 and the outcome of World War II hangs in the balance, everything now hinges on an imminent Allied Invasion into France, D-Day. If the invasion is successful the Allies win, if it fails Germany will be the victor. Field Marshal Rommel is convinced a change in strategy and new weapons will stop the Allies, all he has to do is to convince the Fuhrer and The German High Command before it is too late. Meanwhile, two brothers stand on the opposite side of the channel, each one dedicate to his own particular band of brothers. In occupied France a young German soldier stands alongside his fellow troops, despite his apprehension at what lies ahead he knows he must do everything to fulfil his duties and maintain his honour in the oncoming hell that will be the battle for the beaches. In England an ambitious young GI has completed his training and impatiently awaits the order to embark on the boats heading for the Normandy beaches, knowing that when he disembarks he will be facing the guns and might of the German Army, and haunted by the thought that his own brother is somewhere in occupied Europe. In this exciting historical fantasy novel that explains Rommel’s alternative strategy and explores what could have been the outcome if he had won his struggle with his own high command, we experience the daily life and preparations of ordinary soldiers as invasion nears, and through explicit battle scenes, explore the bloody horror of the D-Day invasion through the eyes of two brothers whom fate has cast on opposing sides. Volume 1 D-Day The Battle for Normandy: Small Arms Decide the Fate in Normandy Volume 2 D-Day The Soldier's Story

Author : Michael Noble
Publisher : Wide Eyed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1786036266
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book D-Day written by Michael Noble and published by Wide Eyed Editions. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relive the events of June 6, 1944, through eye witness accounts that describe 20 real-life stories from the D-Day landings. This book--which presents collated photographs, personal accounts, and testimonies from all sides with full-page illustrations dramatizing individual roles--brings a key moment in history to life for young readers hearing about the event for the first time, as we commemorate its 75th anniversary. Meet: Company Sergeant Major Stanley Hollis, the only person to receive the Victoria Cross for their actions that day Lt. Richard Winter, among the first to be parachuted into action (as depicted in Band of Brothers) American journalist Martha Gellhorn, the only woman known to have been present, after disguising herself as a stretcher bearer As well as a host of other inspiring individuals who each played an important part in the turning point of World War II From those involved in reconnaissance, planning and logistics, espionage, and development of new technology, through to the military units involved in the invasion and landings, and the subsequent phases of the invasion, this authentic retelling provides a view from every angle of the action.