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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... front . Near Vimoutiers three British fighter - bombers appeared flying low and strafed the car in which the Field Marshal was riding . The driver was killed , and Rommel seriously injured . His left eye was partially crushed and his ...
... front . Near Vimoutiers three British fighter - bombers appeared flying low and strafed the car in which the Field Marshal was riding . The driver was killed , and Rommel seriously injured . His left eye was partially crushed and his ...
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... Front , believed so : The over - all situation in the West was serious in the extreme . A heavy defeat anywhere along the front , which was so full of gaps that it did not deserve this name , might lead to a catastrophe , if the enemy ...
... Front , believed so : The over - all situation in the West was serious in the extreme . A heavy defeat anywhere along the front , which was so full of gaps that it did not deserve this name , might lead to a catastrophe , if the enemy ...
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... Front , while Petrov's Fourth Ukrainian Front held the area of the Carpathian Mountains . Not involved in the main offensive at first , Mali- novski's Second and Tolbukhin's Third Ukrainian Fronts busied themselves with the siege of ...
... Front , while Petrov's Fourth Ukrainian Front held the area of the Carpathian Mountains . Not involved in the main offensive at first , Mali- novski's Second and Tolbukhin's Third Ukrainian Fronts busied themselves with the siege of ...
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Normandy to Notre Dame | 1 |
New Guinea and the Marianas | 57 |
Victory Is Everywhere | 109 |
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