St Lo 1944

Author : Didier Lodieu
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782352500353
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dying for Saint-Lo written by Didier Lodieu and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2008-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Georges Bernage
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473858577
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Objective Saint-Lô written by Georges Bernage and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A collection of eyewitness accounts of the heavy fighting that took place in this part of France after the Omaha landings . . . excellent and gripping.”—FSAddon This book provides a day-by-day account of the forty-two days of fighting from Omaha Beach to Saint-Lô. Follow Lt. Allsup from the beaches at Hill 108 (the “bloody hill”), where he was injured, and Lt. Jones, who was among the first to enter Saint-Lô; a town destroyed by bombs, which was to become the graveyard of hundreds of Normans. On the opposing side, discover the fate of the fearsome “green devil” paratroopers of General Schimpf and follow in the footsteps of paratroopers Erwin Schmieger and Rudi Frühbeisser, as they defend their armed camp, ensuring that every hedge will only be taken at the highest price. Objective Saint-Lô takes the reader along the little or unknown routes from the horrors of Omaha Beach to Trvires, La Cambe, Isigny, through the Aure valley to Hill 108, (“Purple Heart Hill”) and Hills 192 and 122. As well as authentic eyewitness testimony, the book also acts as a field guide, including maps and both contemporary and modern photographs. “Lavishly illustrated with sketch maps, then and now images and numerous personal accounts from US and German sources, this is an excellent campaign overview, ideal for tour planning.”—Guild of Battlefield Guides “An exciting story with insights from those who were there and an amazing collection of photographs, drawing and maps—Highly Recommended.”—Firetrench

Author : Michael Dale Doubler
Publisher : Fort Leavenworth, Kan. : U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Busting the Bocage written by Michael Dale Doubler and published by Fort Leavenworth, Kan. : U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. This book was released on 1988 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steven J. Zaloga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472816935
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book St Lô 1944 written by Steven J. Zaloga and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly illustrated new study of the bitter fighting between D-Day and the breakout from Normandy in the bitter, attritional fighting in the bocage country for the vital crossroads of St Lô. It will appeal to any enthusiast of land warfare in World War II.

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Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book St-Lô (7 July - 19 July, 1944) written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. War Department. General Staff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book St-Lo (7 July-19 July 1944). written by United States. War Department. General Staff and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vince Milano
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752472860
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Normandiefront written by Vince Milano and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-10-21 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the cold morning of June 6, 1944, thousands of German soldiers are in position from Port en Bessin eastwards past Colleville on the Normandy coast, aware that a massive invasion force is heading straight for them. According to Allied Intelligence, they shouldn't be there. 352 infantry division would ensure the invaders would pay a massive price to take OMAHA beach. There were veterans from the Russian front amongst them and they were well trained and equipped. The presence of 352 Division meant that the number of defenders was literally double the number expected – and on the best fortified of all the invasion beaches. What makes this account of the bloody struggle unique is that it is told from the German standpoint, using firsthand testimony of German combatants. There are not many of them left and these accounts have been painstakingly collected by the authors over many years.

Author : Glover S. Johns
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811726047
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Clay Pigeons of St. Lo written by Glover S. Johns and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1958 and now available for the first time in paperback, this classic of modern military history tells the exciting true story of the fall of St. Lo, the first major objective of the invading American armies in Normandy in June of 1944. Although St. Lo was intended to be taken within days of the landing, stubborn German resistance postponed the town's fall until July 18. The author describes the bloody action that took place in the thirty days in between as he led his battalion -- dubbed "The Indestructible Clay Pigeons" -- through the daunting combat.

Author : Steven J. Zaloga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472816951
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book St Lô 1944 written by Steven J. Zaloga and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944, the First US Army engaged in a six-week struggle to break out of the Normandy beach-head. The hedgerow country of lower Normandy, called the Bocage, presented unanticipated tactical problems since it proved to be ideal for German infantry defense. This book examines the brutal attritional struggle in June-July 1944 to overcome the determined German defense and secure St Lô. The city was the site of a crucial cross-roads and was thus a vital target for the invading Allied forces; the initial bombing attacks were so severe that the journalist and poet Samuel Beckett would later report that it had been 'bombed out of existence in one night'. The attack by ground forces turned into a brutal attritional struggle to overcome the determined German defense. Using full-colour artwork, photographs and maps, this is the engaging story of one of the key engagements in the Battle of Normandy.

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Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book St-Lô (7 July - 19 July, 1944). written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: