Max Hastings

Overlord (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Max Hastings's "exceptional" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) account of the famous World War II D-Day landings "[will] stand with that of the best journalists and writers who witnessed it" (The New York Times Book Review). On June 6, 1944, the American and British armies staged the greatest amphibious landing in historycalled Operation Overlordthe battle for the liberation of Europe. Despite the Allies' absolute command of sea and air and vast firepower, it took ten weeks of fierce fighting for them to overpower the tenacious, superbly skilled German army. Forty years later, British war correspondent and military historian Max Hastings shares a dense, dramatic portrait of the Normandy invasion that overturns the traditional legends. First published in 1984, Overlord "will shock those who regard the invasion of Normandy and the subsequent battles as triumphs of American, British, and Canadian military heroism" (The New York Times). Instead, Hastings provides a brilliant, controversial perspective on the devastating battles, based on the eyewitness accounts of survivors from both sides, plus a wealth of previously untapped sources and documents. "A masterly book, rich in insight, shrewd and weighty in judgement…Max Hastings stands in the first rank of writers on modern war" (Financial Times).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501132919
• Artikelnr.: 43359697

Autorenporträt

Sir Max Hastings, author of numerous books including Armageddon, Going to the Wars, and Das Reich, was editor of the Daily Telegraph for almost a decade, then for six years he edited the Evening Standard. In his youth he was a foreign correspondent for newspapers and BBC television. He has won many awards for his books and journalism, particularly his work in the South Atlantic in 1982. He was knighted in 2002 for services to journalism.

Inhaltsangabe

Section
i: List of Maps Section
ii: List of Illustrations Section
iii: Foreward Section
iv: Prologue Chapter
1: 'Much the greatest thing we have ever attempted' Chapter
2: Preperations: Commanders; Airmen; Invaders; Defenders Chapter
3: To the Far Shore: The overture; The American beaches; The British beaches; Inland Chapter
4: The British Before Caen: Closing the lines; Villers
Bocage; EPSOM Chapter
5: The Americans Before Chebourg: The bocage; The battle for Chebourg Chapter
6: The German Army: Stemming the Tide: Soldiers; Weapons Chapter
7: The Battlefield: From the beachhead to the front; Casualties Chapter
8: Crisis of Confidence: The fall of Caen; GOODWOOD Chapter
9: The Breakout: COBRA; The limits of air power Chapter
10: The Open Flank Chapter
11: The Road to Falaise Chapter
12: The Gap Section
v: Appendix A: Chronology of the Normandy Campaign Section
vi: Appendix B: Allied Order of Battle Section
vii: Appendix C: Forces available in ETO for Operation OVERLORD, D
Day, 6 June 1944 Section
viii: Appendix D: German land forces encountered by the Allies in Normandy Section
ix: Appendix E: Some British administrative statistics Section
x: Bibliography and a note on sources Section
xi: Notes and references Section
xii: Glossary Acknowledgements
xiii: Acknowledgements Index
xiv: Index