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Cross-Channel attack / by Gordon A. Harrison.

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  • Physical Description: xvii, 519 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, chart ; 26 cm. + 24 maps (partly folded, color)
  • Edition: World War II, 50th anniversary commemorative ed.
  • Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Center of Military History, United States Army : 2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"PIN: 070530-000" -- page [4] of cover.
Previously published in 1951.
Shipping list no.: 2012-0173-P.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
The roots of strategy -- Outline Overlord (January-July 1943) -- Overlord in the balance (August-December 1943) -- The German Army in France, 1940-1943 -- Overlord revised -- Preliminary operations -- German defense measures, 1944 -- The Sixth of June -- The V Corps Lodgment (7-18 June) -- The capture of Cherbourg (8 June-1 July).
Subject: World War, 1939-1945 > Amphibious operations.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > France > Normandy.
Normandy (France) > History, Military.