Inside the Blue Berets: A Combat History of Soviet & Russian Airborne Forces, 1930-1995

History

Steven J. Zaloga

Military

Presidio Press

Target America: The Soviet Union and the Strategic Arms Race, 1945-1964

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US Light Tanks 1944-1984

Americas

Osprey_Publishing

PATTON'S TANKS: TANKS ILLUSTRATED NO. 11

Science & Math

Technology

Arms_Armour_Press

INCLUDES: TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION PART 1: OMAHA BEACH CHRONOLOGY OPPOSING COMMANDERS OPPOSING PLANS OPPOSING ARMIES D-DAY OMAHA BEACH IN RETROSPECT THE BATTLEFIELD TODAY PART 2: UTAH BEACH CHRONOLOGY OPPOSING COMMANDERS OPPOSING ARMIES OPPOSING PLANS D-DAY THE BATTLEFIELD TODAY FURTHER READING INDEX FROM THE INTRODUCTION: "IT WAS A DAY OF WAR THAT WOULD CHANGE THE COURSE OF THE WORLD FOREVER, AND FOR THE BETTER. AND ON JUNE 6, 1944, TWO BATTLEGROUNDS IN PARTICULAR BECAME CRITICAL TO THE ALLIES' SUCCESS-THE BEACHES CALLED OMAHA AND UTAH. THE GERMANS WERE EXPECTING THE MAIN ALLIED ASSAULT FROM ACROSS THE ENGLISH CHANNEL TO COME AT CALAIS. BUT OTHER POTENTIAL ATTACH POINTS WERE VIGOROUSLY DEFENDED, TOO. IN FACT, ON OMAHA BEACH, FULLY ONE THIRD OF THE FIRST ALLIED ASSAULT WAVE BECAME CASUALTIES WITHIN MOMENTS OF HITTING THE BEACH. THE COASTLINE WAS DIFFICULT, AND THE GERMAN SOLDIERS WERE BETTER AND MORE EXPERIENCED HERE THAN AT ANY OF THE OTHER FOUR BEACHES HIT THAT DAY. A DEAR PRICE WAS PAID, BUT THE ATLANTIC WALL WAS BREACHED BY NIGHTFALL. UTAH WAS THE WESTERNMOST BEACH THAT THE ALLIES ATTACKED ON DA-DAY. SITUATED AT THE BASE OF THE COTENTIN PENINSULA, IT OFFERED ACCESS TO CHERBOURG, A KEY PORT FOR THE ALLIES' OVERALL STRATEGIC PLAN. FROM THERE, THE ARMY OF FREEDOM COULD MOVE ON TO THE OTHER PORTS OF BRETON. A FACT THAT MANY PEOPLE LOOK PAST IS THAT THE DAY STARTED NOT WITH THE LANDINGS AT DAWN, BUT BY AIRBORNE LANDINGS OF PARATROOPERS OVERNIGHT...DARING SOLDIERS DROPPED BEHIND ENEMY LINES TO WREAK HAVOC AND START TAKING KEY BRIDGES, CROSSROAD AND OTHER IMPORTANT POINTS. UNDER DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES, THEY GOT ENOUGH OF THE JOB DONE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. IN ONE DAY THE SCRIPT WAS WRITTEN. THE DRAMA THEN PLAYED OUT THROUGH THE SUMMER, FALL, AND WINTER, INTO THE NEXT SPRING. BUT IT ALL STARTED ON D-DAY 1944, MUCH OF IT ON OMAHA AND UTAH BEACHES. HERE IS THE COMPLETE STORY."

D-Day 1944 Omaha and Utah Beaches by Steven J. Zaloga (2005-05-04)

History Channel Club

Jeeps 1941–45 (New Vanguard Book 117)

The first title in Osprey's survey of the D-Day landings of World War II (1939-1945). The D-Day landings of 6 June 1944 were the largest amphibious military operation ever mounted. The greatest armada the world had ever seen was assembled to transport the Allied invasion force across the Channel and open the long-awaited second front against Hitler's Third Reich. Of the landings on the five assault beaches, Omaha Beach was the only one ever in doubt. Within moments of the first wave landing a third of the assault troops were casualties. Yet by the end of D-Day the Atlantic Wall had been breached and the US Army's V Corps was firmly entrenched on French soil.

Campaign 100: D-Day 1944 (1) Omaha Beach

Howard Gerrard

Ramiro Bujeiro

This book combines Campaign 5: ‘Ardennes 1944’, Campaign 24: ‘Arnhem 1944’, Campaign 74: ‘The Rhineland 1945’ and Campaign 75: ‘Lorraine 1944’. In the aftermath of the German collapse in the west in the summer of 1944, Allied armies rampaged across France and Belgium. A German counter-attack was crushed by General Patton in Lorraine, and Allied armies closed on the borders of the Reich. The Allied plan to end the war at a stroke ended in bloody failure at Arnhem, but a German offensive in the Ardennes, Hitler's last roll of the dice on the western front, proved equally futile. With German forces bled white, the Allies hurled themselves across the River Rhine to bring the crumbling edifice of Hitler's 1,000-year Reich crashing in ruin.

Into the Reich: Battles on Germany's Western Front, 1944-1945

Stephen Badsey

James R. Arnold

Ken Ford

T-80 Standard Tank

Bloomsbury UK

T-62 Main Battle Tank 1965–2005

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