D-day: the Normandy invasion in retrospect / with a foreword by Omar N. Bradley
1971, 1st edition. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. SIGNED by Forest Payne. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #316043
ISBN: 0700600736
Physical description: xiii, 254 pages: illustrations, plans, portraits; 24 cm. Notes: Papers from a symposium at the Eisenhower Library, June 6-7, 1969, sponsored by the Eisenhower Foundation. Includes bibliographical references. Contents: D-Day-1944 / Forrest C. Pogue -- A correspondent's view of D-Day / Don Whitehead -- Air campaign overload : to D-Day / Alfred Goldberg -- Commentary / Alfred Hurley -- Logistic planning for overload in retrospect / Roland G. Ruppenthal -- Wilmot revisited : myth and reality in Anglo-American strategy for the second front / Maurice Matloff -- Commentary / James A. Huston -- German naval operations on D-Day / Friedrich Ruge -- Naval aspects of Normandy in retrospect / George M. Elsey -- Some reflections on the immediate post-assault strategy / Martin Blumenson -- Technology and D-Day / Robin Higham. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns France Normandy; Congresses. Normandie, Bataille de, 1944 Congre ès. Military campaigns. Invasion. World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns France Normandy. Genre: Bibliography. Conference papers and proceedings. Conference publication. Illustrated.
Price: €60.00