Download or read book Operation Dragoon written by William B. Breuer and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicts the Allied forces' seaborne and airborne assaults on the Nazi-occupied Mediterranean coast of France

Download or read book Operation Dragoon written by Robin Cross and published by Pegasus Books. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic and expertly rendered narrative of the Allied liberation of the South of France during Operation Dragoon in 1944. Operation Dragoon is the story of the Allied invasion of the South of France on August 15, 1944. It was, in effect, the second D-Day, launched two months after “Overlord,” the Allied invasion of Normandy. As such, it has often been overshadowed by its predecessor, but it significance cannot be underestimated. “Dragoon” was a largely American-French operation in which the British, who had argued for action in northern Italy, played a smaller role. After nearly five years of conflict, British war stamina had been severely sapped. In contrast, the French, who had been excluded from the overall planning of D-Day, played an important role in Dragoon, supplying the majority of the ground troops in a campaign which began on the beaches of the Riviera and ended in the cool, clear air of the Alpes Maritimes, the sacred ground of France. Operation Dragoon provides for the first time a complete overview of the liberation of the South of France—from strategic decisions made from the Allied and German high commands to the intelligence war waged by Allied code-breakers; from the German defeat of French resistance forces on the Vergers to the exploits of individual OSS agents on the ground as they strove to keep pace with a fast-moving battlefield. This is the story of the Allies inflicting on the Germany Army a Blitzkrieg-style defeat, expunging the lingering memories of the catastrophe of 1940.

Download or read book Operation Dragoon written by William B. Breuer and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Operation Dragoon written by Charles River and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-11-07 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes a bibliography for further reading By the end of D-Day, the Allies had managed to successfully land 170,000 men, including over 75,000 on the British and Canadian beaches, 57,000 on the American beaches, and over 24,000 airborne troops. Thanks to Allied deception, the German army had failed to react to prevent the Allies from making the most of their landings. Just one division, the Hitlerjugend, would arrive the following day. Despite a fearsome and bloody day, the majority of the Allied forces had held their nerve, and most importantly, achieved their objectives. This ensured Operation Overlord was ultimately successful, and victory in Europe would be achieved within less than a year. Churchill was not overstating the achievements of the invasion when he described the plan "the greatest thing we have ever attempted". The greatest armada the world had ever seen had landed 170,000 soldiers on the heavily defended beaches of Normandy in just 24 hours. More remarkable was the fact that the operation was a success on every major level. Deception, tactical surprise and overwhelming force had contributed to the establishment of an adequate beachhead. Confusion and dissent had stopped the Germans massing for any great counterattack. The Atlantic Wall which Hitler had placed so much faith in had been breached, and the race to Paris was on. While D-Day is one of the most famous events of the war, it is widely overlooked that about two months after the landings in Normandy, there was a second Allied landing in France. On August 15, 1944, a combined US-French force landed in southern France on the beaches of the Côte d'Azur as part of Operation Dragoon. In just over four weeks of fighting, the Allied landing led to the liberation of most of southern France and to one of the most audacious and successful Allied operations of World War II. However, the planning that led to Operation Dragoon (originally named Operation Anvil) was anything but settled. The idea for a landing in the south of France had been raised by senior commanders as early as 1942, and at one time it was intended to be a concurrent operation with the Overlord landings in Normandy. However, the spectacular failure of the American landing at Anzio in Italy earlier in the year and an increase in the size of forces for Overlord meant there simply weren't resources to spare for a second simultaneous landing in France. Thus, Operation Anvil was canceled. The landings in Normandy and the campaign that followed were successful, but that very success brought its own problems. As the huge Allied armies advanced far beyond the original invasion beaches, providing them with critical supplies such as food, fuel, and ammunition became difficult. The farther they advanced into France, the more acute this problem became, and the failure to capture the port of Cherbourg on schedule made the situation worse. As a result, despite disagreements at the highest levels (Churchill remained vehemently opposed to the operation), it was decided to resurrect Operation Anvil in mid-July 1944 with the prime objectives of securing the ports of Toulouse and Marseille. With less than a month to complete the planning and preparation of a major amphibious operation, many on the Allied side were skeptical of the chances of success for this operation. However, the supply situation in northern France and growing political pressures within the Allies meant it simply had to go ahead. With that, on the morning of August 15, 1944, Allied troops began landing on the beaches of the Côte d'Azur. What followed remains a controversial part of the end of the war in Europe.

Download or read book History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France written by William Francis Patrick Napier and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France written by Sir William Francis Patrick Napier and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Invasion of Southern France written by H. K. Hewitt and published by www.Militarybookshop.CompanyUK. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1944. Authored by Vice Admiral H.K. Hewitt, Part I of this report is concerned with the overall planning for the invasion of Southern France; part II is the execution of the plan. Planning decision, formulation of planned action, assignment of taskor ganizations and execution of the plan campaign narrative, intelligence, operations, air, gunnery, material, logistics, communications, medical department operations are detailed. Please note this a high quality, carefully cleaned up of an archive document and while many efforts have been made to clean up these historic texts there may be occassional blemishes, usually reflecting the age of the documents and the contemporary typescript used at the time.

Download or read book History Of The War In The Peninsula And In The South Of France From The Year 1807 To The Year 1814 written by Sir Willaim Francis Patrick Napier and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Invasion of the South of France written by W. E. H. Westall and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Strange Victory written by Ernest R. May and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernest R. May's Strange Victory presents a dramatic narrative-and reinterpretation-of Germany's six-week campaign that swept the Wehrmacht to Paris in spring 1940. Before the Nazis killed him for his work in the French Resistance, the great historian Marc Bloch wrote a famous short book, Strange Defeat, about the treatment of his nation at the hands of an enemy the French had believed they could easily dispose of. In Strange Victory, the distinguished American historian Ernest R. May asks the opposite question: How was it that Hitler and his generals managed this swift conquest, considering that France and its allies were superior in every measurable dimension and considering the Germans' own skepticism about their chances? Strange Victory is a riveting narrative of those six crucial weeks in the spring of 1940, weaving together the decisions made by the high commands with the welter of confused responses from exhausted and ill-informed, or ill-advised, officers in the field. Why did Hitler want to turn against France at just this moment, and why were his poor judgment and inadequate intelligence about the Allies nonetheless correct? Why didn't France take the offensive when it might have led to victory? What explains France's failure to detect and respond to Germany's attack plan? It is May's contention that in the future, nations might suffer strange defeats of their own if they do not learn from their predecessors' mistakes in judgment.

Download or read book Invasion of Southern France written by Henry Kent Hewitt and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France from the Year 1807 to the Year 1814 1810 1812 written by William Francis Patrick Napier and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of the war in the Peninsula and in the south of France from 1807 to 1814 written by sir William Francis P. Napier and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France from the Year 1807 to the Year 1814 1812 1814 written by William Francis Patrick Napier and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France from A D 1807 to A D 1814 written by Sir William Francis Patrick Napier and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France written by William Francis Patrick Napier and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Operation Dragoon written by Anthony Tucker-Jones and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This WWII military study sheds light on the overlooked Allied landing in Provence and the liberation of Southern France. The Allied landings in the south of France in August 1944, are often seen as a sideshow supporting the crucial D-Day landings in Normandy. Indeed, the operation is often criticized as an expensive diversion of men and equipment from the struggle against the German armies in Italy. Yet, as Anthony Tucker-Jones shows in this in-depth study, Operation Dragoon and the subsequent Allied advance across southern France were key stages in the liberation of Europe with far-reaching political and military ramifications. In vivid detail Anthony Tucker-Jones tells the story of the high-level strategic argument that gave birth to Dragoon, and he looks at the impact of the operation on the direction and duration of the war against Nazi Germany. He also describes the course of the invasion on the ground: the massive logistical effort required, the landings themselves, the role played by the French resistance, and the bitter battles fought against German rearguards as they sought to retain France’s southern cities and cover their withdrawal toward the strategic Belfort Gap.