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Author : Joseph Balkoski
Release : 2008-02-25
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 501/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis From Beachhead to Brittany by : Joseph Balkoski
Download or read book From Beachhead to Brittany written by Joseph Balkoski. This book was released on 2008-02-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging history of a controversial World War II battle. Brilliantly researched and compellingly written by a top military historian.
Author : Joseph Balkoski
Release : 2008-02-25
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 258/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis From Beachhead to Brittany by : Joseph Balkoski
Download or read book From Beachhead to Brittany written by Joseph Balkoski. This book was released on 2008-02-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this highly anticipated sequel to his acclaimed Beyond the Beachhead, World War II historian Joseph Balkoski follows the U.S. 29th Infantry Division out of Normandy and into Brittany in the northwest corner of France, where the division was tasked with seizing the port of Brest. The Germans, including elite paratroopers, fought fiercely for every inch of ground and inflicted heavy casualties on the Americans during bloody house-to-house fighting. By the time the German defenders surrendered, the Allies had taken other ports, thus rendering Brest nearly useless and casting controversy on the decision to capture it in the first place. Balkoski tells the story of the battle, from the generals who ordered the attack to the infantrymen who slogged through the streets of Brest.
Author : Steven J. Zaloga
Release : 2018-04-19
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 384/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Brittany 1944 by : Steven J. Zaloga
Download or read book Brittany 1944 written by Steven J. Zaloga. This book was released on 2018-04-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the prime objectives for the Allies following the D-Day landings was the capture of sufficient ports to supply their armies. The original Overlord plans assumed that ports along the Breton coast would be essential to expansion of the Normandy beach-head. This included the major ports at Brest and on Quiberon Bay. The newly arrived Third US Army (TUSA) under Lt. Gen. George S. Patton was delegated to take on the Brittany mission. In one of the most rapid mechanized advances of the war, TUSA had the ports of Avranches and Quiberon encircled by the second week of August 1944. But changing priorities meant that most of TUSA was redeployed, meaning only a single corps was left to take the Breton port cities. The fight would drag into 1945, long after German field armies had been driven from France. Using full colour maps and artwork as well as contemporary accounts and photographs, Brittany 1944 is the fascinating story of the siege of Germany's last bastions on the French Atlantic coast.
Author : Joseph Balkoski
Release : 2013-01-01
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 908/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Our Tortured Souls by : Joseph Balkoski
Download or read book Our Tortured Souls written by Joseph Balkoski. This book was released on 2013-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continues Balkoski's acclaimed multivolume history of the U.S. 29th Infantry Division in World War II.
Author : Jonathan Gawne
Release : 2002
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 210/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Americans in Brittany, 1944 by : Jonathan Gawne
Download or read book The Americans in Brittany, 1944 written by Jonathan Gawne. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Considered by many of the participants to have been the most intense combat in Europe, the Americans of the 2nd, 8th and 29th Infantry Divisions faced elite German paratroopers ... fight for the Brittany ports. The German defenders were under command of the renowned paratroop General Ramcke, who was ordered by Hitler to hold to the last man? The Brittany campaign became a textbook example of the value of armored units exploiting a breakthrough. For a few days in the summer of 1944, the world?s attention was on the American breakout into Brittany, then the focus shifted to the encirclement of the German Army in the Falaise pocket and the fighting in Brittany was forgotten? Official reports, interwoven with the memories of veterans, bring this important struggle to life. Long thought of as a sideshow, Gawne makes a case for a renewed study of the action, which may have had a far-reaching impact on the Allied supply situation. Heavily illustrated with period photos, uniform reconstructions, maps, and tables of organization, this book provides a long sought overview of the American involvement in this ... fight"--Page 4 of cover.
