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1 online resource |
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The commanders -- Neptune planning in doctrinal context -- Foundation of invasion: from roundup to the Overlord outline plan -- Cross-Atlantic games of ball -- Hard choices -- Neptune plans -- From duck to Fabius and the tragedy of Slapton Sands -- Execution -- Neptune: its lessons and legacies |
| Summary |
A research analyst for the Center for Naval Analyses offers a rare historical account of the Royal and U.S. Navies' involvement in one of the greatest amphibious assaults of modern history. It is a story of cooperation and, at times, discord, between the two navies as they planned the naval portion of the Allied invasion of Normandy. With the evolution of amphibious warfare as a backdrop, the book has sufficient technical detail to satisfy the modern day practitioner of amphibious warfare, yet is written in a style that makes it accessible to the general public. Thoroughly researched at t |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Operation Overlord.
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Operation Neptune.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Amphibious operations.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Military operations, Amphibious
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Operation Neptune
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Operation Overlord
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Marine
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Großbritannien
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Normandie -- Invasion (1944)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2005037955 |
| ISBN |
9781612515182 |
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1612515185 |
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