Years to Victory"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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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 walls cut farming areas up into tiny plots ...
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 walls cut farming areas up into tiny plots ...
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Instead , they offered only token resistance on the beach and prepared their main defenses farther inland . Not that the defense was really token . The First Marine Division , which was assigned the job at Peleliu , ran into a nasty ...
Instead , they offered only token resistance on the beach and prepared their main defenses farther inland . Not that the defense was really token . The First Marine Division , which was assigned the job at Peleliu , ran into a nasty ...
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The comparative ease of the landing was a result of a basic change in Japanese defensive tactics . The Japanese had learned that no beach defenses could stand up to the naval bombard- ment that preceded an amphibious assault , and that ...
The comparative ease of the landing was a result of a basic change in Japanese defensive tactics . The Japanese had learned that no beach defenses could stand up to the naval bombard- ment that preceded an amphibious assault , and that ...
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Normandy to Notre Dame | 1 |
New Guinea and the Marianas | 57 |
Victory Is Everywhere | 109 |
Urheberrecht | |
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| Titel | Years to Victory |
| Autor/in | Henry Hitch Adams |
| Ausgabe | illustriert |
| Verlag | McKay, 1973 |
| Original von | University of Michigan |
| Digitalisiert | 21. Nov. 2006 |
| ISBN | 0679140077, 9780679140078 |
| Länge | 507 Seiten |
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