Download or read book United States Army in WWII Europe Cross Channel Attack written by Gordon A. Harrison and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Includes 4 charts, 31 maps and 62 illustrations] Cross-Channel Attack has been planned and written as the introduction to the history of those campaigns in 1944 and 1945 which led to the destruction of the German armies in the west. It provides necessary background for the study of all the campaigns in the European Theater of Operations. The narrative of operations ends on 1 July 1944, with the Allies firmly established in Normandy. The concluding chapters show the successful fruition of plans and preparations reaching back as far as January 1942; but the seizure of the Norman beaches and the establishment of a lodgment area are only a beginning, a point of departure for the drive to the Elbe and the Baltic. Although Cross Channel Attack includes discussion of certain problems of high command and logistics, a more complete treatment is accorded these subjects in two volumes now under preparation in this series: The Supreme Command and Logistical Support of the Armies. Whether the reader approaches the book with the justified pride that he was a member or supporter of the winning team, or whether he reads to learn, is a matter for him to decide. The victor tends to prepare to win the next war with the same means and methods with which he won the last. He forgets the difficulty of reaching decisions, the planning problems, his faltering, his unpreparedness. The vanquished is wont to search far afield for new and improved methods, means, and equipment. The accomplishments of those who fought in this period were indeed great, as were the sacrifices. But from the national viewpoint it would seem desirable to read this volume with the self-critical eye of the vanquished as well as with the pride of the victor, an approach which the thoughtful reader will not find difficult.
Download or read book Cross channel Attack written by Gordon A. Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cross Channel attack written by Gordon A. Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The European Theater of Operations written by Gordon A. Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the planning and the difficulties encountered incident to the mounting of the largest amphibious assault ever undertaken in military history. Much of the information it contains has not heretofore been a matter of public knowledge. For example, light is for the first time thrown upon the enemy's conflicting theories of defense against Allied air superiority and upon his paucity of first-class troops. This information is derived from the official records of the Wehrmacht and from signed statements of German participants. Many of the difficulties encountered in the planning, as well as in the execution stage of the operation, are here described to the public for the first time.
Download or read book Cross Channel Attack written by Gordon Andrews Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lorraine Campaign written by Hugh Marshall Cole and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account focuses on the tactical operations of the Third Army and its subordinate units between 1 September and 18 December 1944.
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Download or read book Normandy The U S Army Campaigns of World War II Pamphlet Paperback format only written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1994 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict in history of mankind. Highly relevant today, World War II has much to teach us, not only about the profession of arms, but also about military preparedness, global strategy, and combined operations in the coalition war against fascism. World War II was waged on land, on sea, and in the air over several diverse theaters of operation for approximately six years. The essay is one of a series of campaign studies highlighting those struggles that are designed to introduce you to one of the Army's significant military feats from that war.
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Download or read book Cross Channel Attack written by Gordon A. Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The US Army's official history of the D-Day invasion, from its earliest planning stages to the logistical buildup in England to the beach landings and the move towards Cherbourg. With 20 pages of photos.
Download or read book Cross Channel Attack written by Gordon A. Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in the U.S. Army' Center of Military History series, U.S. Army in World War II, is introductory to a series on the European Theater of Operations. The book deals with the development of strategy and planning for the attack on northwest Europe in 1944 and with the first month of operations establishing Allied armies in France. The first 7 chapters (c. 2/3) of the book are concerned with the prelude to the 6 June assault: the preparations and discussions of strategy on both the Allied and German sides from 1941 to 1944. The remaining 3 chapters describe the combat operations of the First U.S. Army in Normandy from 6 June to 1 July 1944. Includes black and white photos and a portfolio of maps.
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Download or read book Breakout and Pursuit Classic Reprint written by Martin Blumenson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-12 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Breakout and Pursuit The campaign in the summer of 1944 related in this volume included some of the most spectacular ground action of the u.s. Army during World War II. It began with the slow and costly hedgerow fighting against deter mined German efforts to contain the Normandy beachhead; it entered its decisive stage when the breach of German defenses permitted full exploita tion of the power and mobility of u.s. Army ground tr00ps; and it reached the peak of brilliance with successive envelopments of principal German forces and the pursuit of their remnants north and east to free most of France, part of Belgium, and portions of the Netherlands. By late August the war in the west appeared to be almost over, but the tyranny of logistics gave the enemy time to rally at the fortified West \vall and delay surrender for another eight months. In the European Theater subseries the backdrop for this volume is Cross Channel Attack, which carries the story to 1 July. Breakout and Pursuit follows the u.s. First Army through 10 September (where The Siegfried Line Campaign picks up the narrative), and the u.s. Third Army through 31 August (where The Lorraine Campaign begins). The logistical factors that played so large a part in governing the pace and extent of combat operations are described in much greater detail in Volume I of Logistical Support of the Armies. The tremendous scope of this campaign, and its partially improvised character, have left a heritage of controversies to which no final answers can be given. The author has had free access to the records and to many of the leading players in the drama, and his account should have wide appeal to the general reader as well as to the serious military student of grand tactics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
