Cart(0 items)
Decision in Normandy by Carlo D'Este
BUY IT NEW
- $12.98 Online price
- $11.68 Member price Join Now
- Add to Wish List
FIND IT IN OUR STORES
Enter a zip code
(Hardcover - Special Value)
Average Customer Rating: 
(2 ratings)
- Publisher: Konecky, William S. Associates, Inc.
- Pub. Date: January 1994
- ISBN-13: 9781568522609
- Sales Rank: 48,009
- 555pp
- Edition Description: Special Value
Synopsis
The battle for Normandy was the most complex and daring military operation in the history of modern Warfare. Two years of intense, detailed planning reached its successful conclusion when the Allied forces took the beaches on D-Day. But the seventy-six-day campaign that followed, the Allies' crucial bid for a toehold in western Europe, was one of the bloodiest of the war, and its true story has been concealed in myth.
Step-by-step the reader is taken through the Normandy campaign from the earliest days after Dunkirk when Churchill first considered the idea of a cross-Channel invasion of France, to the Key battles that determined that outcome, with maps explaining clearly the strategy and logistics of each battle.
This is military history at its most dramatic, with a cast of characters that includes Montgomery, Rommel, Patton, Bradley, and Eisenhower. Decision in Normandy is destined to become the definitive account of a campaign Rommel described as "a terrible blood-letting" and whose outcome became the decisive turning point for the Allied victory.
Customer Reviews
Number of Reviews: 2
Average Rating:
Write a Review
Outstanding Review of Normandy Campaign
A reviewer, A reviewer, 08/16/2002
Carlo D'Este goes beyond the mere review of facts. He discusses the motives, the politics, the often acrimonious negotiations between the strong personalities of the major players. He never settles for just recounting the failures and snafus of those first 2 1/2 months of Overlord, he helps us understand why events happene as they did. He achieves balance between being critically analytical and sympathetic.
War never goes according to plan.
Jay Tinsman
(tinsman5@home.com)
, a history teacher, 08/16/2001
This book describes the tremendous ongoing struggles of the military leaders on both sides of the battle for Normandy to organize and direct the chaos of war. Gaining the beachead on D-day was only the beginning of a months-long bloody fury as the Allies advanced on Germany. Deeply researched, fluidly written, this book shows the process of military decision-making and the difficulties of commanding a multi-national force with the most dire consequences in the balance. This is no doubt the definitive work on the battle of Normandy.
Also recommended: George Feifer, TENNOZAN; Eric Bergerud, TOUCHED WITH FIRE.
- 11 Days in December : Christmas at the Bulge, 1944Stanley Weintraub
- The Boys of Pointe du Hoc : Ronald Reagan, D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger BattalionDouglas Brinkley
- Retribution : The Battle for Japan, 1944-45Max Hastings
- Command Of Honor : General Lucian Truscott's Path to Victory in World War IIH. Paul Jeffers
- In Harm's Way : The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its SurvivorsDoug Stanton
loading...