Six Armies in Normandy : From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris; June 6 - Aug. 5, 1944; Revised

by Keegan, John (Author)

• ISBN13: 9780140235425
• ISBN10: 0140235426
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-06-01
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

Summary

The armies of six nations met on the battlefields of Normandy in what was to be the greatest Allied achievement of World War II. With dramatic, driving power, John Keegan describes the massed armies-American, Canadian, English, French, German, and Polish-at successive stages of the invasion. As he details the strategies of the military engagements, Keegan brilliantly shows how each of the armies reflected its own nation's values and traditions. In a new introduction written especially to commemorate the 50th anniversary of D-Day, he contemplates the ways the events in Normandy still reverberate today.

Table of Contents

Illustrations and Credits	viii
Foreword	xi
Acknowledgments	xii
Introduction	xiv
Prologue In the Invasion Area	1	(20)
Journey to the Second Front	21	(48)
Stilwell	22	(9)
Wedemeyer	31	(3)
Eisenhower	34	(4)
Molotov	38	(3)
Marshall	41	(6)
Brooke	47	(8)
Montgomery	55	(4)
Rommel	59	(10)
All-American Screaming Eagles	69	(46)
Flight	76	(10)
Descent	86	(2)
Landing	88	(1)
Gathering	89	(4)
Action	93	(22)
The 3rd/505th at Ste Mere-Eglise	93	(6)
The 1st/505th at the Merderet	99	(3)
The 2nd/507th at Cauquigny	102	(3)
The 3rd/506th at the Douve Bridges	105	(3)
The 1st/502nd at WXYZ	108	(2)
The 3rd/501st at Pouppeville	110	(5)
Canada: to the South Shore	115	(28)
Dieppe: the Awful Warning	120	(5)
Fire Support	125	(3)
The German Defenders	128	(3)
Bombardment	131	(2)
Run-in	133	(3)
Touch-down	136	(3)
Inland	139	(4)
Scottish Corridor	143	(40)
The Fight of the Panzer Divisions	143	(11)
The March to the Battlefield	154	(4)
The Fall of Cherbourg	158	(2)
The Great Storm	160	(4)
Epsom	164	(2)
Scotland the Brave	166	(4)
Finding the Enemy	170	(6)
Across the River	176	(7)
Yeomen of England	183	(38)
Planning a Break-through	189	(4)
The Waiting Armour	193	(4)
Moving Up	197	(3)
Bombardment	200	(3)
Into the Corridor	203	(2)
Battle Group von Luck	205	(5)
Counter-attack	210	(6)
Repercussions	216	(5)
The Honour of the German Army	221	(28)
Break-through	230	(4)
Patton	234	(4)
The Will of the Fuhrer	238	(3)
Operation Luttich	241	(8)
`A Polish Battlefield'	249	(34)
`The Worst Day of My Life'	255	(5)
Command Indecision	260	(2)
General Sikorski's Tourists	262	(7)
Contact at Chambois	269	(6)
The Mace	275	(8)
Free France	283	(30)
Insurrection	287	(5)
Truce	292	(3)
De Gaulle	295	(4)
La Division Leclerc	299	(5)
Liberation	304	(9)
Epilogue From the Atlantic Wall to the Iron Curtain	313	(22)
Appendix: British, American and German Divisions in Normandy, June 6th-August 25th, 1944	335	(6)
References	341	(4)
Select Bibliography	345	(6)
Index	351	(12)
Index of Formations and Units	363