BATTLES OF WORLD WAR II; D-Day 1944 (3) Sword Beach & the British Airborne la…

At 0016hrs on 6 June 1944 a Horsa glider ground to a halt a mere 60 yards from the Orne Canal bridge at Bénouville in Normandy. A small group of British paratroopers burst from it and stormed the bridge within minutes. The Allied liberation of Nazi-occupied Europe had begun. Within a few hours landing craft would swarm towards Ouistreham as British 3rd Division swept ashore at Sword Beach. The…

BATTLES OF WORLD WAR II; Guam 1941 & 1944 Loss and Reconquest

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9781112223352

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BATTLES OF WORLD WAR II; Sevastopol 1942 Von Manstein's triumph

In late July 1941, Hitler order army Group South to seize the Crimea in order to prevent Soviet air attacks on the Ploesti oilfields in Romania. This vital mission was assigned to weak Eleventh Army under Generaloberst von Manstein. In late September 1941, von Manstein began his initial attacks upon the strong Soviet defences at the Perekop isthmus, and then cleared the heavily fortified Kerch …

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BATTLES OF WORLD WAR II; Falaise 1944 Death of an Army

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9781112223348

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BATTLES OF WORLD WAR II; Tarawa 1943 The Turning of the Tide

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9781112223378

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BATTLES OF WORLD WAR II; Iraq 1941 The Anglo-Iraqi War

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9781112223354

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BATTLES OF WORLD WAR II; Patton's Race for the Seine

In July 1944, Operation Cobra broke the stalemate in Normandy and sent the Allies racing across France. The Allied commanders ignored Paris in their planning for this campaign, considering that the risk of intense street fighting and heavy casualties outweighed the city's strategic importance. However, Charles de Gaulle persuaded the Allied commanders to take direct action to liberate his natio…

BATTLES OF WORLD WAR II; Libya 1940 The Allies' First Victory

The first battle of the desert war, Operation Compass was originally envisaged as a spoiling attack, combined with a reconnaissance in force to disrupt the Italian forces that had advanced into Egypt in September 1940, Lt Gen, Richard O’Connor launched what amounted to a British ‘Blitzkrieg’. In Less than two months the British forces swept 500 miles along the coast of North Africa. 7th A…

BATTLES OF WORLD WAR II; Caen 1944 Montgomery's Break-out Attempt

One of the key objectives of British forces on D-Day was the capture of the strategically vital city of Caen. General Montgomery saw Caen as the key to Normandy and the springboard for the Allied breakout, but so did the Germans and the city did not fall. It took three major offensives and more than 30 bloody days of struggle to finally take Caen. In the process the city was controversially dev…