Derek Law's Bibliography

Category: Operation DRAGOON: The Invasion of the South of France

Name: Operation DRAGOON: The Invasion of the South of France
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Documents: 6

962 BREUER, William B. Operation Dragoon: The Allied Invasion of the South of France. 253p., bibliog., illus., index. Novato, Calif.: Presidio, 1987; Shrewsbury: Airlife, 1988. ISBN: 1853100102.

Essentially a military history, full of the doings of individuals.

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963 BREUER, William B. Sea Wolf: A Biography of John D. Bulkeley, USN. x, 318p., illus. Novato, Calif.: Presidio, 1989. ISBN: 0891413359.

The biography of a US Admiral who played a prominent part in Dragoon.

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965 TUCKER-JONES, Anthony. Operation DRAGOON: The Liberation of Southern France 1944. xi, 212 p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2009. ISBN: 184884140X.

Places the invasion in its wider context and notes the revival of French forces.

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966 WILSON, H. Maitland. Report by the Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean to the Combined Chiefs of Staff on the Operations in Southern France, August 1944. 48p. London: HMSO, 1946.

The official account of the background, planning, and landings.

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ROBICHON, J. The Second D-Day. x, 314p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Barker, 1969. ISBN: 0213177951.

The first full account in English of the landings in the South of France in 1944. Originally published in French in Paris in 1963.        

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STEWART, Andrew. Operation Dragoon: The Invasion of the South of France, 15 August 1944 (Naval Staff Histories of the Second World War, Volume 2) edited by Andrew Stewart. 129p., bibliog., illus., index. Solihull: Helion, 2015. ISBN: 9781909982987.

Originally produced in 1950 as Battle Summary No. 43 as a private Admiralty document, this is now reproduced with an excellent new introduction.

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