"[...] D-Day to Berlin covers this whole campaign, showing how both technical excellence and personal courage were necessary for success; how bitter quarrels between Allied generals were eventually resolved; and how largely untried troops created fearsome fighting units that swept to victory in May 1945."--
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ISBN:9780785830290
ISBN:0785830290
Physical Description:print 189 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 29 cm.
Introduction / Part 1: D-Day: The Early Hours -- Utah Beach -- Omaha Beach -- Gold Beach -- Juno Beach -- Sword Beach -- June 7-12, 1944 / Part 2: The Battle for Normandy: June 10-August 31, 1944 -- Cracking the German Defences -- Hard Fighting in the Bocage -- Breakout and the Falaise Pocket / Part 3: Arnhem: September-November 1944 -- Market Garden -- The Battle for Lorraine -- Planning the German Counter / Part 4: Battle of the Bulge: December 5-30, 1944 -- Hitler's Last Throw / Part 5: The Conquest of Germany: January-May, 1945 -- The Allied Counterattack -- Unconditional Surrender / Key to maps.
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