Sand & steel: the D-Day invasion and the liberation of France
"Peter Caddick-Adams's account of the Allied invasion of France in June 1944 matches the monumental achievement of his book on the Battle of the Bulge, Snow and Steel, which Richard Overy has called the "standard history of this climactic confrontation in the West." Sand and Stee...
Gespeichert in:
| 1. Verfasser: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
| Veröffentlicht: |
New York, NY
Oxford University Press
[2019]
|
| Schlagworte: | |
| Online-Zugang: | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Zusammenfassung: | "Peter Caddick-Adams's account of the Allied invasion of France in June 1944 matches the monumental achievement of his book on the Battle of the Bulge, Snow and Steel, which Richard Overy has called the "standard history of this climactic confrontation in the West." Sand and Steel gives us D-Day, arguably the greatest and most consequential military operation of modern times, beginning with the years of painstaking and costly preparation, through to the pitched battles fought along France's northern coast, from Omaha Beach to the Falaise and the push east to Strasbourg. The Allied invasion of Europe involved mind-boggling logistics, including orchestrating the largest flotilla of ships ever assembled. Its strategic and psychological demands stretched the Allies to their limits, testing the strengths of the bonds of Anglo-American leadership. Drawing on first-hand battlefield research, fresh personal testimony, and a commanding grasp of all the archives and literature, Caddick-Adams's book does Operation Overlord full justice. Sand and Steel shows as well how liberating France hinged on two other key elements: the activities of the French Resistance and Operation Dragoon, which involved landing 887 ships along the French Rivera, including seven aircraft carriers and 2,000 plans. It was Dragoon as much as Overlord that inspired resistance fighters throughout France to rise up. The implementation of Dragoon was controversial. Backed by Eisenhower and Stalin the other D-Day invasion was strongly opposed by Churchill, who believed a less costly breakthrough in the Mediterranean was imminent. This volume in Caddick-Adams's epic trilogy of the final year of World War II is the first book to incorporate all the elements of D-Day, and to reveal in full what lay behind eventual Allied victory in Europe."-- "Sand and Steel gives us D-Day, arguably the greatest and most consequential military operation of modern times, beginning with the years of painstaking and costly preparation, through to the pitched battles fought along France's northern coast, from Omaha Beach to the Falaise and the push east to Strasbourg. In addition to covering the build-up to the invasion, including the elaborate and lavish campaigns to deceive Germans as to where and when the invasion would take place, Peter Caddick-Adams gives a full and detailed account of the German preparations, but the heart of the book is Caddick-Adams' narratives of the five beaches where the terrible drama played out--Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword, and the attempt by American, British, and Canadian soldiers to gain a foothold in Europe"-- |
| Beschreibung: | xlii, 1025 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten |
| ISBN: | 9780190601898 |
Internformat
MARC
| LEADER | 00000nam a2200000 c 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | BV045938098 | ||
| 003 | DE-604 | ||
| 005 | 20190716 | ||
| 007 | t | ||
| 008 | 190617s2019 a||| b||| 00||| eng d | ||
| 020 | |a 9780190601898 |c hardback |9 978-0-19-060189-8 | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)1109256425 | ||
| 035 | |a (DE-599)BVBBV045938098 | ||
| 040 | |a DE-604 |b ger |e rda | ||
| 041 | 0 | |a eng | |
| 049 | |a DE-12 | ||
| 084 | |a HIST |q DE-12 |2 fid | ||
| 100 | 1 | |a Caddick-Adams, Peter |d 1960- |e Verfasser |0 (DE-588)1068466006 |4 aut | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Sand & steel |b the D-Day invasion and the liberation of France |c Peter Caddick-Adams |
| 246 | 1 | 3 | |a Sand and steel |
| 264 | 1 | |a New York, NY |b Oxford University Press |c [2019] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c © 2019 | |
| 300 | |a xlii, 1025 Seiten |b Illustrationen, Karten | ||
| 336 | |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |b n |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |b nc |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 520 | 3 | |a "Peter Caddick-Adams's account of the Allied invasion of France in June 1944 matches the monumental achievement of his book on the Battle of the Bulge, Snow and Steel, which Richard Overy has called the "standard history of this climactic confrontation in the West." Sand and Steel gives us D-Day, arguably the greatest and most consequential military operation of modern times, beginning with the years of painstaking and costly preparation, through to the pitched battles fought along France's northern coast, from Omaha Beach to the Falaise and the push east to Strasbourg. The Allied invasion of Europe involved mind-boggling logistics, including orchestrating the largest flotilla of ships ever assembled. Its strategic and psychological demands stretched the Allies to their limits, testing the strengths of the bonds of Anglo-American leadership. Drawing on first-hand battlefield research, fresh personal testimony, and a commanding grasp of all the archives and literature, Caddick-Adams's book does Operation Overlord full justice. Sand and Steel shows as well how liberating France hinged on two other key elements: the activities of the French Resistance and Operation Dragoon, which involved landing 887 ships along the French Rivera, including seven aircraft carriers and 2,000 plans. It was Dragoon as much as Overlord that inspired resistance fighters throughout France to rise up. The implementation of Dragoon was controversial. Backed by Eisenhower and Stalin the other D-Day invasion was strongly opposed by Churchill, who believed a less costly breakthrough in the Mediterranean was imminent. This volume in Caddick-Adams's epic trilogy of the final year of World War II is the first book to incorporate all the elements of D-Day, and to reveal in full what lay behind eventual Allied victory in Europe."-- | |
| 520 | 3 | |a "Sand and Steel gives us D-Day, arguably the greatest and most consequential military operation of modern times, beginning with the years of painstaking and costly preparation, through to the pitched battles fought along France's northern coast, from Omaha Beach to the Falaise and the push east to Strasbourg. In addition to covering the build-up to the invasion, including the elaborate and lavish campaigns to deceive Germans as to where and when the invasion would take place, Peter Caddick-Adams gives a full and detailed account of the German preparations, but the heart of the book is Caddick-Adams' narratives of the five beaches where the terrible drama played out--Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword, and the attempt by American, British, and Canadian soldiers to gain a foothold in Europe"-- | |
| 650 | 0 | 7 | |a Operation Overlord |0 (DE-588)4115412-5 |2 gnd |9 rswk-swf |
| 653 | 2 | |a World War (1939-1945) | |
| 653 | 0 | |a World War, 1939-1945 / Campaigns / France / Normandy | |
| 653 | 0 | |a World War, 1939-1945 / Campaigns / France | |
| 653 | 0 | |a Operation Overlord | |
| 653 | 2 | |a Normandy (France) / History, Military | |
| 653 | 0 | |a HISTORY / Military / World War II. | |
| 653 | 0 | |a HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century | |
| 653 | 0 | |a Military campaigns | |
| 653 | 0 | |a Operation Overlord | |
| 653 | 2 | |a France | |
| 653 | 2 | |a France / Normandy | |
| 653 | 4 | |a 1939-1945 | |
| 653 | 6 | |a Military history | |
| 689 | 0 | 0 | |a Operation Overlord |0 (DE-588)4115412-5 |D s |
| 689 | 0 | |5 DE-604 | |
| 856 | 4 | 2 | |m Digitalisierung BSB München - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment |q application/pdf |u http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=031320391&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA |3 Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| 940 | 1 | |q BSB_NED_20190716 | |
| 999 | |a oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-031320391 | ||
| 942 | 1 | 1 | |c 355.009 |e 22/bsb |f 09044 |g 181 |
Datensatz im Suchindex
| _version_ | 1804180131532505088 |
|---|---|
| adam_text | Contents Glossary Operation Overlord Orders of Battle Introduction vii xxvi xxxvii Part One: Preparation 1 France and America 3 2 Atlantikwall 17 3 Heading Over There 49 4 The Commandos 60 5 Warm Hearts 78 6 A Question of Colour 97 7 Committees and Code Words 114 8 Soapsuds and Tidal Waves 140 9 COSSACs, Spartans and Chiefs 155 10 Rhinos, Camels and Roundabouts 170 11 Ducks and Eagles 198 12 Bigots and Tigers 225 13 Thunderclaps and Fabius 243
vi CONTENTS 14 My Headmaster Was a Spy 260 15 Big Week, Berlin and Nuremberg 275 16 Fortitude, FUSAG and France 294 17 The Giants 320 18 Weathermen 339 19 The Great Armada 353 20 Shells, Rockets and Flies 376 21 Boats and Bugles 396 Part Two: Invasion 22 Night Flyers 417 23 Across the Water and Into the Trees 445 24 Utah: Ivy Division 481 25 Wet Feet 515 26 Omaha: Blue and Gray 545 27 Omaha: Cota Takes Command 579 28 Rangers, Lead the Way! 604 29 Omaha: Big Red One 633 30 Omaha: E-3 - the Colleville Draw 660 31 Gold: Men of the Double-T 699 32 Juno: Maple Leaf at War 741 33 Iron Division at Sword 783 34 Yeomen of England 811 35 Green Berets and le Général 844 Postscript: Fortitude and the Spies 869 Acknowledgements 889 Notes 899 Bibliography 987 Index 999
|
| any_adam_object | 1 |
| author | Caddick-Adams, Peter 1960- |
| author_GND | (DE-588)1068466006 |
| author_facet | Caddick-Adams, Peter 1960- |
| author_role | aut |
| author_sort | Caddick-Adams, Peter 1960- |
| author_variant | p c a pca |
| building | Verbundindex |
| bvnumber | BV045938098 |
| ctrlnum | (OCoLC)1109256425 (DE-599)BVBBV045938098 |
| format | Book |
| fullrecord | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><collection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"><record><leader>04615nam a2200541 c 4500</leader><controlfield tag="001">BV045938098</controlfield><controlfield tag="003">DE-604</controlfield><controlfield tag="005">20190716 </controlfield><controlfield tag="007">t</controlfield><controlfield tag="008">190617s2019 a||| b||| 00||| eng d</controlfield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">9780190601898</subfield><subfield code="c">hardback</subfield><subfield code="9">978-0-19-060189-8</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)1109256425</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(DE-599)BVBBV045938098</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="040" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-604</subfield><subfield code="b">ger</subfield><subfield code="e">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="041" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">eng</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="049" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-12</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="084" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">HIST</subfield><subfield code="q">DE-12</subfield><subfield code="2">fid</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="100" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Caddick-Adams, Peter</subfield><subfield code="d">1960-</subfield><subfield code="e">Verfasser</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)1068466006</subfield><subfield code="4">aut</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Sand & steel</subfield><subfield code="b">the D-Day invasion and the liberation of France</subfield><subfield code="c">Peter Caddick-Adams</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="246" ind1="1" ind2="3"><subfield code="a">Sand and steel</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="1"><subfield code="a">New York, NY</subfield><subfield code="b">Oxford University Press</subfield><subfield code="c">[2019]</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="c">© 2019</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="300" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">xlii, 1025 Seiten</subfield><subfield code="b">Illustrationen, Karten</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="336" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">txt</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacontent</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="337" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">n</subfield><subfield code="2">rdamedia</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="338" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">nc</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacarrier</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="520" ind1="3" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">"Peter Caddick-Adams's account of the Allied invasion of France in June 1944 matches the monumental achievement of his book on the Battle of the Bulge, Snow and Steel, which Richard Overy has called the "standard history of this climactic confrontation in the West." Sand and Steel gives us D-Day, arguably the greatest and most consequential military operation of modern times, beginning with the years of painstaking and costly preparation, through to the pitched battles fought along France's northern coast, from Omaha Beach to the Falaise and the push east to Strasbourg. The Allied invasion of Europe involved mind-boggling logistics, including orchestrating the largest flotilla of ships ever assembled. Its strategic and psychological demands stretched the Allies to their limits, testing the strengths of the bonds of Anglo-American leadership. Drawing on first-hand battlefield research, fresh personal testimony, and a commanding grasp of all the archives and literature, Caddick-Adams's book does Operation Overlord full justice. Sand and Steel shows as well how liberating France hinged on two other key elements: the activities of the French Resistance and Operation Dragoon, which involved landing 887 ships along the French Rivera, including seven aircraft carriers and 2,000 plans. It was Dragoon as much as Overlord that inspired resistance fighters throughout France to rise up. The implementation of Dragoon was controversial. Backed by Eisenhower and Stalin the other D-Day invasion was strongly opposed by Churchill, who believed a less costly breakthrough in the Mediterranean was imminent. This volume in Caddick-Adams's epic trilogy of the final year of World War II is the first book to incorporate all the elements of D-Day, and to reveal in full what lay behind eventual Allied victory in Europe."--</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="520" ind1="3" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">"Sand and Steel gives us D-Day, arguably the greatest and most consequential military operation of modern times, beginning with the years of painstaking and costly preparation, through to the pitched battles fought along France's northern coast, from Omaha Beach to the Falaise and the push east to Strasbourg. In addition to covering the build-up to the invasion, including the elaborate and lavish campaigns to deceive Germans as to where and when the invasion would take place, Peter Caddick-Adams gives a full and detailed account of the German preparations, but the heart of the book is Caddick-Adams' narratives of the five beaches where the terrible drama played out--Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword, and the attempt by American, British, and Canadian soldiers to gain a foothold in Europe"--</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1="0" ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Operation Overlord</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4115412-5</subfield><subfield code="2">gnd</subfield><subfield code="9">rswk-swf</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2="2"><subfield code="a">World War (1939-1945)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">World War, 1939-1945 / Campaigns / France / Normandy</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">World War, 1939-1945 / Campaigns / France</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Operation Overlord</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2="2"><subfield code="a">Normandy (France) / History, Military</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">HISTORY / Military / World War II.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Military campaigns</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Operation Overlord</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2="2"><subfield code="a">France</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2="2"><subfield code="a">France / Normandy</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">1939-1945</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2="6"><subfield code="a">Military history</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="0" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Operation Overlord</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4115412-5</subfield><subfield code="D">s</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="5">DE-604</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="2"><subfield code="m">Digitalisierung BSB München - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment</subfield><subfield code="q">application/pdf</subfield><subfield code="u">http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=031320391&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA</subfield><subfield code="3">Inhaltsverzeichnis</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="940" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="q">BSB_NED_20190716</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="999" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-031320391</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="942" ind1="1" ind2="1"><subfield code="c">355.009</subfield><subfield code="e">22/bsb</subfield><subfield code="f">09044</subfield><subfield code="g">181</subfield></datafield></record></collection> |
| id | DE-604.BV045938098 |
| illustrated | Illustrated |
| indexdate | 2024-07-10T08:30:53Z |
| institution | BVB |
| isbn | 9780190601898 |
| language | English |
| oai_aleph_id | oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-031320391 |
| oclc_num | 1109256425 |
| open_access_boolean | |
| owner | DE-12 |
| owner_facet | DE-12 |
| physical | xlii, 1025 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten |
| psigel | BSB_NED_20190716 |
| publishDate | 2019 |
| publishDateSearch | 2019 |
| publishDateSort | 2019 |
| publisher | Oxford University Press |
| record_format | marc |
| spelling | Caddick-Adams, Peter 1960- Verfasser (DE-588)1068466006 aut Sand & steel the D-Day invasion and the liberation of France Peter Caddick-Adams Sand and steel New York, NY Oxford University Press [2019] © 2019 xlii, 1025 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Peter Caddick-Adams's account of the Allied invasion of France in June 1944 matches the monumental achievement of his book on the Battle of the Bulge, Snow and Steel, which Richard Overy has called the "standard history of this climactic confrontation in the West." Sand and Steel gives us D-Day, arguably the greatest and most consequential military operation of modern times, beginning with the years of painstaking and costly preparation, through to the pitched battles fought along France's northern coast, from Omaha Beach to the Falaise and the push east to Strasbourg. The Allied invasion of Europe involved mind-boggling logistics, including orchestrating the largest flotilla of ships ever assembled. Its strategic and psychological demands stretched the Allies to their limits, testing the strengths of the bonds of Anglo-American leadership. Drawing on first-hand battlefield research, fresh personal testimony, and a commanding grasp of all the archives and literature, Caddick-Adams's book does Operation Overlord full justice. Sand and Steel shows as well how liberating France hinged on two other key elements: the activities of the French Resistance and Operation Dragoon, which involved landing 887 ships along the French Rivera, including seven aircraft carriers and 2,000 plans. It was Dragoon as much as Overlord that inspired resistance fighters throughout France to rise up. The implementation of Dragoon was controversial. Backed by Eisenhower and Stalin the other D-Day invasion was strongly opposed by Churchill, who believed a less costly breakthrough in the Mediterranean was imminent. This volume in Caddick-Adams's epic trilogy of the final year of World War II is the first book to incorporate all the elements of D-Day, and to reveal in full what lay behind eventual Allied victory in Europe."-- "Sand and Steel gives us D-Day, arguably the greatest and most consequential military operation of modern times, beginning with the years of painstaking and costly preparation, through to the pitched battles fought along France's northern coast, from Omaha Beach to the Falaise and the push east to Strasbourg. In addition to covering the build-up to the invasion, including the elaborate and lavish campaigns to deceive Germans as to where and when the invasion would take place, Peter Caddick-Adams gives a full and detailed account of the German preparations, but the heart of the book is Caddick-Adams' narratives of the five beaches where the terrible drama played out--Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword, and the attempt by American, British, and Canadian soldiers to gain a foothold in Europe"-- Operation Overlord (DE-588)4115412-5 gnd rswk-swf World War (1939-1945) World War, 1939-1945 / Campaigns / France / Normandy World War, 1939-1945 / Campaigns / France Operation Overlord Normandy (France) / History, Military HISTORY / Military / World War II. HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century Military campaigns France France / Normandy 1939-1945 Military history Operation Overlord (DE-588)4115412-5 s DE-604 Digitalisierung BSB München - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=031320391&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| spellingShingle | Caddick-Adams, Peter 1960- Sand & steel the D-Day invasion and the liberation of France Operation Overlord (DE-588)4115412-5 gnd |
| subject_GND | (DE-588)4115412-5 |
| title | Sand & steel the D-Day invasion and the liberation of France |
| title_alt | Sand and steel |
| title_auth | Sand & steel the D-Day invasion and the liberation of France |
| title_exact_search | Sand & steel the D-Day invasion and the liberation of France |
| title_full | Sand & steel the D-Day invasion and the liberation of France Peter Caddick-Adams |
| title_fullStr | Sand & steel the D-Day invasion and the liberation of France Peter Caddick-Adams |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sand & steel the D-Day invasion and the liberation of France Peter Caddick-Adams |
| title_short | Sand & steel |
| title_sort | sand steel the d day invasion and the liberation of france |
| title_sub | the D-Day invasion and the liberation of France |
| topic | Operation Overlord (DE-588)4115412-5 gnd |
| topic_facet | Operation Overlord |
| url | http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=031320391&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT caddickadamspeter sandsteeltheddayinvasionandtheliberationoffrance AT caddickadamspeter sandandsteel |