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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If Anvil could not directly support Overlord , Churchill could think of a dozen better things to do with the troops — although his pet schemes for Rhodes and the Aegean had been firmly squashed . On April 19 , after Anvil had been ...
If Anvil could not directly support Overlord , Churchill could think of a dozen better things to do with the troops — although his pet schemes for Rhodes and the Aegean had been firmly squashed . On April 19 , after Anvil had been ...
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Things thus got off to a bad start . While the two Marine divisions were making good progress , Ralph Smith's troops fell farther and farther behind . There was no lack of courage on the part of the Army men ; they were poorly led ...
Things thus got off to a bad start . While the two Marine divisions were making good progress , Ralph Smith's troops fell farther and farther behind . There was no lack of courage on the part of the Army men ; they were poorly led ...
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And Army Air Force planes on Leyte were getting things going more to their own satisfaction . The fast carriers hung on until they had completed their job . And their rest was not going to be a long one . They would be needed at sea to ...
And Army Air Force planes on Leyte were getting things going more to their own satisfaction . The fast carriers hung on until they had completed their job . And their rest was not going to be a long one . They would be needed at sea to ...
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Normandy to Notre Dame | 1 |
New Guinea and the Marianas | 57 |
Victory Is Everywhere | 109 |
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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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