Normandy depicts the planning and execution of Operation Overlord in 96 full-color pages.
The Liberation of Paris, led by the 2nd Free French Armored Division, which had been fighting for four long years with this goal in mind.. 7.
The slaughter was so great that 5,000 Germans were buried in one mass grave.
The Falaise Pocket, known as the Killing Ground, where the remnants of two German armies were trapped and bombed and shelled into submission. 6.
The breakout of General Patton\'s Third Army and the desperate US 30th Division\'s defense of Mortaine. 5.
The British-Canadian struggle for the city of Caen against the Hitler Youth Division, made up of 23,000 seventeen- and eighteen-year-old Nazi fanatics. 4.
The American fight through the heavy bocage (hedgerow country) to take the vital town of Saint-L . 3.
The Capture of Cherbourg, the nearest French port, against a labyrinth of Gennan pillboxes. 2.
Construction of the Mulberry Harbors, two giant artificial harbors built in England and floated across the English Channel so that troops, vehicles, and supplies could be offloaded across the Invasion beaches.
This book depicts the such key events in the Allied liberation of Europe as: 1.
The Germans made every effort to push them back into the sea.
Once the Allies got ashore, they had to stay ashore.
But the story does not end there.
The initial paratrooper assault is shown, as well as the storming of the five D-Day beaches: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword.
Normandy depicts the planning and execution of Operation Overlord in 96 full-color pages
