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| 1062 | NORMAN, Albert. Operation Overlord, Design and Reality: The Allied Invasion of Western Europe. xiv, 230p., bibliog., illus., index. Harrisburg: Military Service Publishing, 1952.
A historian attached to General Omar Bradley's staff gives an early account of the problems faced and solved in mounting the cross-channel assault. Takes the story up to the breakout from the beachhead and gives some background to the naval contribution to the invasion. |
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| 1063 | SMALL, Ken, & ROGERSON, Mark. The Forgotten Dead: Why 946 American Servicemen Died off the Coast of Devon in 1944. ix, 198p., illus., index. London: Bloomsbury, 1989. ISBN: 0747504334.
The Slapton Sands fiasco of Exercise Tiger by an author who crusaded for many years to uncover this concealed disaster. A second edition was published in 1993. |
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| 1064 | STAGG, J. M. Forecast for Overlord, June 6th 1944. 128p., illus. London: Ian Allan; New York: Norton, 1971. ISBN: 0711002517.
Written by Eisenhower's chief weather expert, the book describes the plans and preparations to advise on the weather for the invasion of Europe. An interesting byway. |
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| 1065 | THOMPSON, R. W. The Price of Victory. xi, 281p., bibliog., index. London: Constable, 1960.
The planning of the cross-channel assault with a brief account of operations on June 6 itself. |
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| 1066 | TOOLEY, Peter. Operation Quicksilver. [v], 64p., illus. Romford: Henry, 1988. ISBN: 0860254151.
Describes the building and deployment of dummy landing craft - known as "Bigbobs" - with the aim of deceiving the Germans into believing that the invasion would take place in the Pas de Calais. |
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| 1067 | YUNG, Christopher D. Gators of Neptune: Naval Amphibious Planning for the Normandy Invasion. xxiv, 292p., bibliog., illus., index. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2006.
An excellent account of the strains and successes of the Anglo-American planning teams followed by an account of the plan's execution. |
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| 1068 | BEAMISH, Derek, & ANDREWS, Ian. D-Day Poole. 24p., illus. Poole: Poole Historical Trust, 1993. ISBN: 1873535104.
Poole played its part in the preparations for invasion. Previously published in 1984 by Poole Tourist Service |
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| 1069 | BURTON, Lesley. D-Day: Our Great Enterprise. 96p., bibliog., illus., index. Gosport: Gosport Society, 1984. A profusely illustrated local history showing how the towns of the Solent reacted to and supported the preparations for D–Day. Reprinted in 1993 by Gosport Publishing, ISBN: 0950203610. |
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| 1070 | DOUGHTY, Martin. Hampshire and D-Day. 190p., bibliog., illus., index. Crediton: Hampshire Books, 1994. ISBN: 1857410475.
A series of essays which usefully describe the central role of Hampshire as the springboard for the assault. |
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| 1071 | FREEMAN, Ray. We Remember D-Day: British and American Eye-Witness Accounts from the Dart and Normandy (Dartmouth History Research Group, Paper 11). 31p., illus. Dartmouth: Dartmouth History Research Group, 1994. ISBN: 1899011005.
More commemorative oral history. |
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| 1072 | GREIG, Ian, LESLIE, Kim, & READMAN, A. E. D-Day West Sussex: Springboard for the Normandy Landings 1944. viii, 107p., bibliog., illus., index. Chichester: West Sussex County Council, 1994. ISBN: 0862602912.
Another local history commemorative volume. A revised second edition was published in 2004. |
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| 1073 | KEMP, Anthony. Springboard for Overlord: Hampshire and the D-Day Landings. 72p., illus. Horndean: Milestone, 1984. ISBN: 090385242X.
Useful background on the invasion ports. |
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| 1074 | O'CONNELL, Geoffrey. Southwick: The D-Day Village that Went to War. iv, 140p., illus., index. Leatherhead: Ashford Buchan & Enright, 1994. ISBN: 1852532998.
Southwick Hall was first the home of the Portsmouth navigation school HMS Dryad, but was later taken over as the command base for Eisenhower, Montgomery, and Ramsay. |
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| 1075 | THOMPSON, Kate. Fareham D-Day 50 Years On: A Community Remembers. 120p., illus. Fareham: Fareham Borough Council, 1994. ISBN: 0952312700
Reminiscences of a memorable period in the life of the town. |
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| 1076 | TRELAWNY. Falmouth's Wartime Memories: A Series of Personal Recollections as Told to Trelawny and Published to Commemorate the Fiftieth Anniversary of D-Day, June 6 1944. 168p., illus. Falmouth: Arwenack, 1994. ISBN: 1899121005.
The old remember the great days. |
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| 1077 | WILSON, Ian. From Belfast Lough to D-Day. 68p., bibliog., illus. North Down: North Down Heritage Centre, 1994. ISBN: 0951156217.
Mainly concerned with the Western Naval Task Force assigned to give fire support to the landings at Omaha and Utah beaches. It assembled in Belfast Lough and its gathering and part in the assault are described. |
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| 1078 | ELLSBERG, Edward. The Far Shore. 381p., illus. New York: Dodd Mead, 1960; London: Gibbs & Phillips, 1961.
The continuing memoirs of the author which recount his involvement with Mulberry Harbours and the D-Day landings. |
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| 1079 | EVANS, J., PALMER, E., & WALTER, R. A Harbour Goes to War: The Story of Mulberry and the Men who Made it Happen. xviii, 173p., bibliog., illus., index. Oxford: Brook House for South Machars Historical Society, 2000. ISBN: 1873547307.
A locally published account of how the ports and bays of Galloway were used in their creation. |
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| 1080 | HARRISON, Michael. Mulberry: The Return in Triumph. 286p., bibliog., illus., index. London: W. H. Allen, 1965.
A full history of the artificial harbours which were so important to the success of D-Day. |
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| 1081 | HARTCUP, Guy. Code Name Mulberry: The Planning, Building and Operation of the Normandy Harbours. 160p., bibliog., illus., index. Newton Abbot: David & Charles; New York: Hippocrene, 1977. ISBN: 0715373889
The subtitle reveals all. |
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