Название: D-Day: The Battle for Normandy
Автор: Antony Beevor
Издательство: Penguin
ISBN: 0143118188
Год: 2009
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 624
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 11,3 МБ
Язык: Английский
The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome. What followed them was some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the war, at times as savage as anything seen on the Eastern Front. As casualties mounted, so too did the tensions between the principal commanders on both sides. Meanwhile, French civilians caught in the middle of these battlefields or under Allied bombing endured terrible suffering. Even the joys of Liberation had their darker side. The war in northern France marked not just a generation but the whole of the post-war world, profoundly influencing relations between America and Europe.