Fighting them on the beaches : the D-Day Landings, June 6, 1944
Cawthorne, Nigel
Book
Total copies: 1
Author:
Imprint:
London : Arcturus, not given
Collation:
240 p.
Notes:
"Fighting them on the beaches" tells the story of one of the most meticulously organised seaborne invasions in the history of warfare-the Allied landings of June 6, 1944: D-Day.As the parachutists and glider troops of the US and British airborne divisions went in on the night of June 5, Allied shipping began massing in the Channel.At dawn on June 6, waves of assault craft hit the Normandy beaches. British, American, Canadian, Polish and Free French troops streamed ashore to storm the defences of the Atlantic Wall in the teeth of overwhelming enemy firepower.By midnight on D-Day 150, 000 Allied troops were ashore and the process of consolidating the beachheads and pushing inland had begun.
ISBN:
9781841931135
Dewey class:
940.5421
Language:
English
BRN:
280787