Smashing the Atlantic Wall : the destruction of Hitler's coastal fortresses / Patrick Delaforce.

Author/creator Delaforce, Patrick
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon : Cassell Military ; New York, NY : Distributed in the United States by Sterling Pub. Co., 2001.
Description240 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Machine generated contents note: I Adolf Hitler's Fortress-Ports and the Secret Edicts 15 -- 2 Churchill and the Second Front 44 -- 3 Operation Neptune: Naval Operation Orders 52 -- 4 The Capture of Cherbourg: 'A field of devastation' 6o -- 5 Von Aulock's Gallant Defence of St Malo 79 -- 6 The Taking of Brest: 'A symbolic Value' 9g -- 7 The Mousetrap War: Containing the Atlantic Fortress-Ports -- 8 Rouen and the Return to Dieppe II4 -- 9 The Capture of Antwerp: 'A stunning surprise' I20 -- 10 Dunkirk: 'An unknown, undramatic, dirty little war' I27 -- II Ostend and Zeebrugge Cleared I34 -- 12 The Capture of Le Havre: Operation Astonia I37 -- I3 The Capture of Boulogne: Operation Wellhit 144 -- 14 The Capture of Calais and Cap Gris-Nez: Operation Undergo -- I5 Scheldt Operation: 'It lacked glamour' I6I -- I6 Operation Angus: Clearing South Beveland Isthmus I69 -- 17 Hitler's Scheldt Fortress South: Operation Switchback I75 -- i8 Operation Vitality i: 'Felt increasingly forgotten' I83 -- 19 Operation Vitality Ii: Lowland Division in Action i88 -- 20 Operation Infatuate i: 'It was very nasty' I90 -- 2I Operation Infatuate II: 'All hell was let loose' I94 -- 22 Operation Calender: 'Delight in getting mines' 207 -- 23 A Kind of Odd-Job Formation 212 -- 24 The Logistical War of Supply and Demand 215 -- 25 The Verdronken Land: The Drowned Land 222 -- Bibliography 225 -- Glossary 226 -- Canadian Forces 230 -- Index 231.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2002318355
ISBN0304361631
ISBN9780304361632

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks D756 .D389 2001 ✔ Available Place Hold