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Operation Neptune: The D-Day Landings, 6 June 1944 (Naval Staff Histories of the Second World War)
Dr. Tim Benbow
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Description for Operation Neptune: The D-Day Landings, 6 June 1944 (Naval Staff Histories of the Second World War)
Hardcover. Series: Naval Staff Histories of the Second World War. Num Pages: 376 pages, c 24 colour and b/w maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 241 x 30. Weight in Grams: 784.
The D-Day landings of June 1944 were one of the most ambitious undertakings of all time, and their success one of the greatest military accomplishments. Operation Neptune was the initial assault stage of the broader Operation Overlord, the liberation of north-west Europe. It was a hugely complex undertaking involving several thousand ships and aircraft and hundreds of thousands of men, as the Allies took on Germany's vaunted Atlantic Wall. In the words of the man most responsible for the plan, Admiral Bertram Ramsay (Allied Naval Commander-in-Chief), `It is to be our privilege to take part in the ... Read more
The D-Day landings of June 1944 were one of the most ambitious undertakings of all time, and their success one of the greatest military accomplishments. Operation Neptune was the initial assault stage of the broader Operation Overlord, the liberation of north-west Europe. It was a hugely complex undertaking involving several thousand ships and aircraft and hundreds of thousands of men, as the Allies took on Germany's vaunted Atlantic Wall. In the words of the man most responsible for the plan, Admiral Bertram Ramsay (Allied Naval Commander-in-Chief), `It is to be our privilege to take part in the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Helion and Company
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Solihull, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781909982970
SKU
V9781909982970
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About Dr. Tim Benbow
Tim Benbow is a Senior Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department of King's College London, at the Joint Services Command and Staff College of the UK Defence Academy. He took a BA at Brasenose College, Oxford, and then an M.Phil. and a D.Phil. at St. Antony's College, and also studied for a year at Harvard as a Kennedy Scholar ... Read more
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... for historians interested in the operations they cover, while for those who possess copies of the originals they are of value because of the added insight they offer.
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