D-Day, 6 June 1944, saw the largest amphibious landing operation in history. From ports and harbors on the southern coast of England, an armada of troopships and landing craft launched the Allied assault on the mainland of Europe. Stephen Badsey provides a concise account of the Normandy campaign, from the fiercely contested landings, to the struggle to capture Caen, the 'Cobra' breakout, and the dramatic pursuit of the Germans to the River Seine. Included are a large number of black and white photos and several color maps.D-Day, 6 June 1944, saw the largest amphibious landing operation in history. From ports and harbors on the southern coast of England, an armada of troopships and landing craft launched the Allied assault on the mainland of Europe. Stephen Badsey provides a concise account of the Normandy campaign, from the fiercely contested landings, to the struggle to capture Caen, the 'Cobra' breakout, and the dramatic pursuit of the Germans to the River Seine. This was the crucial campaign of the Western theater--after the Battle of Normandy, the only question was how soon the war would end, not who would win it. Badsey investigates the circumstances that led to this great Allied victory.Air superiority, numbers, and the initiative all greatly aided the British and Americans in their struggle against the Germans, as did the latter's disorganization at their highest level of command. Troops and equipment are discussed, as is the terrain that they had to operate in. Badsey clarifies the problems that the bocage caused for offensive armored operations and shows how the Allies overcame them to eventually surround the Germans in the Falaise pocket. Included are a large number of black and white photos and several color maps, all of which serve to illustrate Allied progress and give the reader a sense of the soldier's experience in Normandy.

Normandy 1944: Allied Landings and Breakout (Praeger Illustrated Military History)

History

Badsey, Stephen

Military

Praeger Pub Text

Market Garden was one of the most audacious, and ultimately controversial, operations of the Second World War--a joint penetration by an armored column and a large-scale airborne drop. Stephen Badsey provides an authoritative and absorbing account. He closely examines the combatants, analyzing their strengths and weaknesses and explaining the different phases of the battle.
Market Garden was one of the most audacious, and ultimately controversial, operations of the Second World War--a joint penetration by an armored column and a large-scale airborne drop. The objective was to secure key waterways and railheads and punch a decisive hole in the German defenses. If it had succeeded, the war could have been ended in 1944. Stephen Badsey closely examines the combatants, analyzing their strengths and weaknesses and explaining the different phases of the battle.
Yet the two-pronged attack failed as a confusing and daily-changing pattern of events unfurled. Instead of being relieved after 48 hours as expected, British paratroopers were cut off for nine days as the 2nd Army's spearhead, XXX Corps, were slowed by constant German shelling. Facing two unexpected SS Panzer divisions, the Allied paratroops were eventually evacuated across the Rhine after putting up an incredible fight. Of the 10,000 men involved, fewer than 2,000 survived. Badsey provides an authoritative and absorbing account of why this happened. He closely examines the combatants, analyzing their strengths and weaknesses and explaining the different phases of the battle.

Arnhem 1944: Operation Market Garden (Praeger Illustrated Military History)

During the Crimean War, for the first time, newspaper correspondents were able to provide the public with eye-witness accounts of the scenes of conflict. This book combines such first-hand descriptions from The Times of London with an authoritative discussion of the war, based on the latest historical scholarship. In the process a welcome reassessment of the war emerges.In addition to the famous accounts submitted by William Howard Russell all areas of the Black Sea theatre are covered, including the Sea of Azov, the Caucasus and Bulgaria, along with the other major theatre of war, the Baltic, where the Admiral Commander-in-Chief sometimes acted as Times correspondent. This marks a return to the contemporary perception of the war, where the whole conflict was observed, rather than the subsequent concentration on the heroism, incompetence and recovery on the few square miles of the Crimean Uplands that have come to dominate the modern image of the war. It is a curious irony that the instrument by which the illusion of a 'Crimean' War was created, the stark images published in The Times, should now be used to restore a due sense of proportion.The standards, objects and methods employed by the journalists in this, the first war to be covered in the modern sense, are also considered, making this a comprehensive account of the 'first newspaper war'.

The Crimean War (The War Correspondents)

Lambert, Andrew D.

Sutton Pub Ltd

Taking the defenders by surprise, the US 4th Division touched down on Utah Beach at dawn on D-Day, losing only 197 men killed out of 23,000 who landed that day. Meanwhile, US 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions secured the flanks of the Utah landing, assuring the ground troops' progress inland.

Utah Beach (Battle Zone Normandy)

At dawn on D-Day the US Army's 1st and 29th infantry divisions launched their attack on Omaha Beach. The assaulting infantry were compelled to wade through shoulder-high water, under murderous fire, many being killed as they struggled ashore. Despite appalling difficulties, a bridgehead had been established by the evening of June 6.

Omaha Beach (Battle Zone Normandy Series)

Bean, Tim

Archive photos, full-color mapping, and easy-to-follow battlefield tours enrich this account of the hardest fight of D-Day Infantry Divisions led the assault on Omaha Beach, the most strongly defended of the all invasion beaches, and the entire fight is narrated in this book. Supporting Allied bombers had mostly missed their targets, the offshore naval bombardment was hampered by poor visibility, and many elements of the first assault waves were swamped or sank, including amphibious tanks. The first waves of infantry waded ashore into a storm of German fire. In these first harrowing hours of "Overlord," Lieutenant General Omar Bradley, commanding First U.S. Army, seriously considered aborting the Omaha landing altogether. Yet despite appalling difficulties and heavy casualties, the U.S. troops prevailed and a vulnerable bridgehead inland was established by the evening of June 6.

D-Day Landings: Omaha Beach

Europe

The History Press

A prevalent view among historians is that both horsed cavalry and the cavalry charge became obviously obsolete in the second half of the nineteenth century in the face of increased infantry and artillery firepower, and that officers of the cavalry clung to both for reasons of prestige and stupidity. It is this view, commonly held but rarely supported by sustained research, that this book challenges. It shows that the achievements of British and Empire cavalry in the First World War, although controversial, are sufficient to contradict the argument that belief in the cavalry was evidence of military incompetence. It offers a case study of how in reality a practical military doctrine for the cavalry was developed and modified over several decades, influenced by wider defence plans and spending, by the experience of combat, by Army politics, and by the rivalries of senior officers. Debate as to how the cavalry was to adjust its tactics in the face of increased infantry and artillery firepower began in the mid nineteenth century, when the increasing size of armies meant a greater need for mobile troops. The cavalry problem was how to deal with a gap in the evolution of warfare between the mass armies of the later nineteenth century and the motorised firepower of the mid twentieth century, an issue that is closely connected with the origins of the deadlock on the Western Front. Tracing this debate, this book shows how, despite serious attempts to ’learn from history’, both European-style wars and colonial wars produced ambiguous or disputed evidence as to the future of cavalry, and doctrine was largely a matter of what appeared practical at the time.

Doctrine and Reform in the British Cavalry 1880 - 1918 (Birmingham Studies in First World War History)

Routledge

Normandy 1944

Barnes & Noble, 2000

Pearl Harbor: 50th Anniversary Edition

Americas

Bdd Promotional Book Co

In this collection of essays of incomparable scholarship, Stephen Badsey explores in individual detail how the British Army fought in the First World War, how politics and strategy affected its battles and the decisions of senior commanders such as Douglas Haig, and how these issues were intimately intertwined with the mass media portrayal of the Army to itself and to the British people. Informative, provocative, and often entertaining, based on more than a quarter-century of research, these essays on the British Army in the First World War range through topics from a trench raid to modern television comedy. As a contribution to progressive military history, The British Army in Battle and Its Image 1914-1918 proves that the way the British Army fought and its portrayal through the media cannot be separated. It is one of a growing number of studies which show that, far from being in opposition to each other, cultural history and the history of battle must be combined for the First World War to be properly understood. For more information visit Stephen Badsey's website www.stephenbadsey.com .

The British Army in Battle and Its Image 1914-18 (Birmingham War Studies)

Continuum

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