Sand & steel : the D-Day invasion and the liberation of France
by Caddick-Adams, Peter, 1960- (Author)
Summary
"Peter Caddick-Adams's account of the Allied invasion of France in June 1944 matches the monumental achievement of his book on the Battle of the Bulge, Snow and Steel, which Richard Overy has called the "standard history of this climactic confrontation in the West." Sand and Steel gives us D-Day, ar... Full description
- Part One: Preparation
- France and America
- Alantikwall
- heaing over there
- the commandos
- warm hearts
- a question of colour
- committees and code words
- soapsuds and tidal waves
- COSSACs, spartans and cheifs
- rhinos,camels and roundabouts
- ducks and eagles
- bigots and tigers
- thunderclaps and fabius
- my headmaster was a spy
- big week, berlin and nuremberg
- fortitude, FUSAG and france
- the giants
- weathermen
- the great armada
- shells, rockets and flies
- boats and bugles
- Part Two: Invasion
- night fyers
- across the water and into the trees
- Utah: ivy division
- wet feet
- Omaha: Blue and gray
- Omaha: Cota takes command
- Rangers, lead the way!
- Omaha: big red one
- Omaha: E-3- the colleville draw
- Gold: men of the double-T
- uno: Maple leaf at war
- Iron division at sword
- Yeomen of England
- Green berets and le general
- index.