One of the prime objectives for the Allies following the D-Day landings was the capture of sufficient ports to supply their armies. The original Overlord plans assumed that ports along the Breton coast would be essential to expansion of the Normandy beach-head. This included the major ports at Brest and on Quiberon Bay. The newly arrived Third US Army (TUSA) under Lt. Gen. George S. Patton was delegated to take on the Brittany mission. In one of the most rapid mechanized advances of the war, TUSA had the ports of Avranches and Quiberon encircled by the second week of August 1944. But changing priorities meant that most of TUSA was redeployed, meaning only a single corps was left to take the Breton port cities. The fight would drag into 1945, long after German field armies had been driven from France. Using full color maps and artwork as well as contemporary accounts and photographs, Brittany 1944 is the fascinating story of the siege of Germany's last bastions on the French Atlantic coast.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-10
1472827376
ISBN-13
9781472827371
eBay Product ID (ePID)
237684333
Product Key Features
Book Title
Brittany 1944 : Hitler's Final Defenses in France
Author
Steven J. Zaloga
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Military / World War II, Europe / France
Publication Year
2018
Genre
History
Number of Pages
96 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.7in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
10.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
320
Lc Classification Number
D761
Illustrated by
Tan, Darren
Table of Content
Origins of the campaign/Chronology/Opposing commanders/Opposing armies/Orders of battle/Opposing plans/The campaign/Aftermath/The battlefields today/Further reading/Index
Copyright Date
2018
Dewey Decimal
940.542141
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Campaign Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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