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This alternate history of the Allied D-Day landings is based very firmly on fact and is a brilliant study of how a campaign could lead to unexpected results. It is June 1944. The Allied armies are poised for the full-scale invasion of Fortress Europe. Across the Channel, the vaunted Wehrmacht lies waiting for the first signs of the invasion, ready for the final battle. What happens next is well known to any student of modern history - but the outcome could have been very different, as Peter Tsouras shows in this devastating account of a D-Day in which plans, missions and landings go horribly wrong. Peter Tsouras introduces minor adjustments at the opening of the campaign - the repositioning of a unit, bad weather and misjudged orders - and examines their effect as they gather momentum and impact upon all subsequent events. Without deviating from the genuine possibilities of the situation, he presents a scenario that keeps the reader guessing and changes the course of history.… (mais)
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
This book is dedicated with great affection to the memory of my dear friends, Bruce W. Watson, Commander, U. S. Navy (retired) and his soulmate and wife, Susan M. Watson.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
The rows of American LSTs (Landing Ship Tank) were heading singlefile towards the landing beaches, blacked-out and faint against a low quarter moon about to set. (Prologue)
In the year of invasion 1066, the English waited nervously all Summer for Duke William of Normandy's invasion fleet to find that necessary but elusive combination of calm seas and fair winds to carry it to England.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
My profound respect I extend to the British, Canadian, and American fighting men who suffered, endured and triumphed in this great battle and who ensured that Disaster at D-Day remains only fiction. (Postscript)
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CDD/MDS canônico
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This alternate history of the Allied D-Day landings is based very firmly on fact and is a brilliant study of how a campaign could lead to unexpected results. It is June 1944. The Allied armies are poised for the full-scale invasion of Fortress Europe. Across the Channel, the vaunted Wehrmacht lies waiting for the first signs of the invasion, ready for the final battle. What happens next is well known to any student of modern history - but the outcome could have been very different, as Peter Tsouras shows in this devastating account of a D-Day in which plans, missions and landings go horribly wrong. Peter Tsouras introduces minor adjustments at the opening of the campaign - the repositioning of a unit, bad weather and misjudged orders - and examines their effect as they gather momentum and impact upon all subsequent events. Without deviating from the genuine possibilities of the situation, he presents a scenario that keeps the reader guessing and changes the course of history.
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