Max Hastings

Overlord (eBook, ePUB)

D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the No. 1 bestselling historian Max Hastings comes 'a masterly book, rich in insight, shrewd and weighty in judgement' Financial Times

On June 6, 1944 - D-Day - British, Canadian and American troops staged the greatest amphibious landing in history. It was the start of Operation Overlord, the battle to take Normandy from the Third Reich. Over ten gruelling weeks, the Allies fought the entrenched German army, some infantry units suffering an almost 100 per cent casualty rate.

In Overlord, acclaimed historian Max Hastings has drawn on eyewitness accounts of survivors from both sides, plus a wealth of previously untapped sources and documents, to write a gripping and authoritative account of the devastating fighting that paved the way for the liberation of north-west Europe.

'A book which combines serious historical and critical comment with brilliant reportage. He brings both the arguments between higher commanders and the fighting on the battlefield itself to life more vividly than previous books' Times Literary Supplement

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780330528993
• Artikelnr.: 39885138

Autorenporträt

Max Hastings is the author of thirty books, most about conflict, including Bomber Command, Armageddon, Das Reich, The Korean War, The Battle for the Falklands, Vietnam, Operation Pedestal and Abyss, and editor of two anthologies. He worked as a reporter for BBC television and British newspapers, covering eleven wars, including Vietnam, the 1973 Yom Kippur war and the Falklands war. Between 1986 and 2002 he served as editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph, then editor of the Evening Standard. He has won many prizes for both journalism and his books. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of King's College, London, and was knighted in 2002. He has two grown-up children, Charlotte and Harry, and lives with his wife Penny in West Berkshire, where they garden enthusiastically.

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