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Auteur(s) : Symonds, Craig Lee (1946-....)
Titre(s) : Neptune [Texte imprimé] : the Allied invasion of Europe and the D-Day landings / Craig L. Symonds
Publication : Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XVII-422 p., 16 unnumbered p. of plates) : ill., maps ; 25 cm
Comprend : Prologue ; Germany First ; ARCADIA ; "We've Got to Go to Europe and Fight" ;
The Mediterranean Tar Baby ; Casablanca to COSSAC ; Brits and Yanks ; "Some Damn
Things Called LST's" ; SHAEF and ANCXF ; Duck, Fox, Beaver, Tiger ; "O.K. We'll
Go" ; D-Day: The Invasion ; D-Day: The Beaches ; D-Day: The Crisis ; "The Shoreline
Was Just a Shambles" ; "A Field of Ruins" ; Epilogue.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 400-410) and index
The invasion of Europe in 1944 and the victories that followed would not have been
possible without the massive naval operation known as Neptune. Symonds traces the
central thread of this Olympian event -- involving over five thousand ships and nearly
half a million personnel -- from the first talks between British and American officials
in the winter of 1941 to the storming of the beaches in the late spring of 1944. Neptune
was the pinnacle of Allied organization and cooperation ; "On June 6, 1944, 160,000
Allied troops landed along 50 miles of French coastline to battle German forces on
the beaches of Normandy. D-Day, as it would come to be known, would eventually lead
to the liberation of Western Europe, and was a critical step in the road to victory
in World War II. Yet the story begins long before the Higgins landing craft opened
their doors and men spilled out onto the beaches to face a storm of German bullets.
The invasion, and the victories that followed, would not have been possible without
the massive naval operation that led up to it: NEPTUNE. From the moment British forces
evacuated the beaches of Dunkirk in 1940, Allied planners began to consider how, when,
and where they would re-enter the European continent. Once in the war, the Americans,
led by George Marshall, wanted to invade in a year's time. The British were convinced
this would be a tragic mistake. Allied forces would be decimated by the Wehrmacht.
When Operation Overlord -- the name given to the cross-Channel invasion of Northern
France -- was finally planned, it was done so only in concert with the seaborne assault
that would bring the men and equipment to the Normandy coast. Symonds traces the central
thread of this Olympian event -- involving over five thousand ships and nearly half
a million personnel -- from the first talks between British and American officials
in the winter of 1941 to the storming of the beaches in the late spring of 1944. He
considers Neptune's various components, including the strategic unity, industrial
productivity, organizational execution, and cross-cultural exchange on which the Allies
depended. Portraits of key American and British figures, from Franklin Roosevelt,
Winston Churchill, and Eisenhower to Admiral Ernest J. King and his British counterpart,
Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, combine with an intimate look at men up and down the chain
of command. Neptune was the pinnacle of Allied organization and cooperation. From
the suppressing of the U-boat menace in the Battle of the Atlantic, to the establishing
of camps and training facilities near the English coast, to the gearing up of the
American industrial machine to produce the ships, tanks, and tools of war that would
make an invasion possible, Symonds' riveting narrative uncovers the means by which
Neptune was brought to fruition, and presents the first comprehensive account of the
greatest naval operation in history"
Sujet(s) : Débarquement de Normandie (1944)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780199986118 (hardback) (acid-free paper). - ISBN 0199986118 (hardback) (acid-free
paper)
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