Years to VictoryMcKay, 1973 - 507 Seiten "Beginning with 'the loneliest man in the world,' General Dwight D. Eisenhower, making his decision to proceed with Operation Overlord, Years to Victory recounts the last years of World War II from the Allied landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944, to the utter defeat and unconditional surrender of Germany and Japan. As the dignitaries assembled on the deck of the United States battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay on the morning of September 2, 1945, the Axis had been totally destroyed."--Book Jacket. |
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... Rundstedt , for more men . It was in vain . Von Rundstedt had a different idea of the strategy of defense . To Rommel it was perfectly clear that the defense had to be static in the bocage country of Normandy where high dirt and stone ...
... Rundstedt , for more men . It was in vain . Von Rundstedt had a different idea of the strategy of defense . To Rommel it was perfectly clear that the defense had to be static in the bocage country of Normandy where high dirt and stone ...
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... Rundstedt had ordered an alert . Von Rundstedt assumed Rommel had done so , and Rommel apparently distrusted the whole thing . The result was that only the Fifteenth Army was prepared to meet the invasion . The Seventh Army at Normandy ...
... Rundstedt had ordered an alert . Von Rundstedt assumed Rommel had done so , and Rommel apparently distrusted the whole thing . The result was that only the Fifteenth Army was prepared to meet the invasion . The Seventh Army at Normandy ...
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... Rundstedt's reply had been short and to the point . " Do ? Make peace , you fools ! What else can you do ? " Keitel told Hitler that von Rundstedt was a defeatist . He was replaced by Field Marshal Günther von Kluge . Von Kluge was not ...
... Rundstedt's reply had been short and to the point . " Do ? Make peace , you fools ! What else can you do ? " Keitel told Hitler that von Rundstedt was a defeatist . He was replaced by Field Marshal Günther von Kluge . Von Kluge was not ...
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Normandy to Notre Dame | 1 |
New Guinea and the Marianas | 57 |
Victory Is Everywhere | 109 |
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