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Chargement... Sand and Steel: The D-Day Invasion and the Liberation of Francepar Peter Caddick-Adams
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.   ) rayski | Aug 29, 2022 |  As for Caddick-Adams' mission, much of it relates to examining, and in a lot cases debunking, the myths that were created by Cornelius Ryan's "The Longest Day" (both the book and the film), and Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan." From there, there is also an effort to put the experiences of the other assault beaches into perspective, as the epic desperation experienced on "Omaha" beach tends to suck all the oxygen out of the room. In particular, this means playing up the Canadian experience on "Juno" Beach, and critically examining whether the British forces on "Sword" beach really had a chance to grab Caen. In the second case, the author has to conclude that while Bernard Montgomery may have had daydreams about grabbing the French town, he wasn't prepared to admit that the resources just weren't there to enable the mission to be accomplished; it should be noted that Caddick-Adams is not a great admirer of the field marshal. One could go on and on about the all the small, but, salient matters that the author makes note of, from the experiences of the German make-weight battalions recruited from their POW camps, to the impact of the clockwork Allied invasion plan, to how the dicey weather inflicted havoc on the small land craft and amphibious vehicles, to squarely facing the mediocrity of the (for the most part) German anti-invasion plan. Still, at the end of the day, Caddick-Adams has to conclude that it was fortunate that June 6 was chosen as "the day" and that Eisenhower deserves all the credit in the world for having the moral courage to pull the trigger. Highly recommended. (  ) Shrike58 | Mar 17, 2022 | ) graeme.bell3 | Dec 25, 2021 | Having said that, it does take awhile to get through the details, and C-A sometimes seems to hide his analysis in the last sentence of the last paragraph. Since I'm looking for more analysis and less information about what the 2nd dress rehearsal for the Normandy invasion was called, it does become tedious reading at times. I really appreciated his criticism of Cornelius Ryan and his including references to movie Saving Private Ryan---since that is where most people today get their DDay information from. He also isn't shy about calling out self-promotion in memoirs written by key figures. But he provides balance by acknowledging that those key figures couldn't write about national secrets when they published those accounts. It's not a real page-turner, but serious WWII historians will recognize that this is going to become a cornerstone work on the DDay invasion of Normandy, France. ( ) Jeff.Rosendahl | Sep 21, 2021 | ) MarianneAudio | Aug 15, 2020 |
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"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"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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