TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gilbert,Martin
TI  - D-Day
SN  - 0471423408 (alk. paper)
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Hoboken, N.J.
PB  - J. Wiley & Sons
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - France
KW  - Normandy
KW  - Normandy (France)
KW  - History, Military
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-210) and index; Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of maps -- Genesis of a plan -- Adversaries and allies -- Toward Overlord -- Preparations intensify -- Planning and deception -- Mounting costs -- Month of May -- First five days of June -- D-Day: from midnight to dawn -- D-Day: Fighting on land: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword -- Establishing the beachhead -- Beyond the pointof no return -- Maps -- Bibliography of works consulted -- Index
N2  - "I hope to God I know what I'm doing." General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the night before D-Day. "Do you realize that by the time you wake up in the morning, 20,000 men may have been killed?" Winston Churchill, to his wife, the night before D-Day. It was the most massive, complex, and spectacular amphibious assault ever attempted, the long-awaited turning point in the bloodiest and most savage war in history. But when 7,000 ships, 11,000 aircraft, and 150,000 troops converged on the coast of Normandy on 6 June 1944, the outcome of the attack, code-named "Operation Overlord," was far from certain. In D-Day, one of the foremost historians of the twentieth century provides an incisive and dramatic account of the strategic planning, in-fighting, invention, deception, and hard labor that led up to that momentous day. Through vivid, firsthand accounts of the battle, Martin Gilbert also captures the horror and heroism of D-Day, from daring paratroop attacks behind enemy lines to grim determination under withering fire on the beachheads. Tracing the genesis of D-Day to the early days after Dunkirk, Gilbert recounts how the results of numerous commando raids-some successful, others disastrous-shaped the Allies planning for a full-scale assault. He reveals Churchill's hands-on involvement in both strategic and tactical planning, and explains why the invasion was delayed for more than two years after America's entry into the war. Gilbert offers a wealth of new and detailed information on the Allies' use of double agents and phantom armies to fool Hitler and his generals into believing that the Normandy invasion was a mere diversion in preparation for a larger assault elsewhere. He also reveals how British code breakers provided Allied commanders with astonishingly accurate information on German troop movements, defense strategies, and command decisions. D-Day introduces hundreds of extraordinary people whose confidence, ingenuity, and courage were crucial to the succe
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