A new edition of the graphic account of the planning and execution of Operation Overlord, as well as the campaign which effectively destroyed the German forces in France, opening the way for the Allied advance.
| Autor: | Holmes, Richard Imperial War Museum |
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| ISBN: | 9781802798548 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Headline Book |
| Veröffentlicht: | 09.05.2024 |
| Untertitel: | From the Invasion to the Liberation of Paris – 80th Anniversary Edition |
| Schlagworte: | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military Battles & campaigns Battles and campaigns Biography: historical, political & military Biography: historical, political and military HISTORY / Europe / France HISTORY / Europe / Western HISTORY / Military / Naval Memoirs Specific wars and campaigns c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period) |
Professor Richard Holmes was one of the UK's leading military historians. As well as being the General Editor of the Oxford Companion to Military History, he presented several documentary series for the BBC. His books included The Napoleonic Wars Experience, as well as Tommy: The British Solider on the Western Front, Wellington: The Iron Duke and Red Coat. He died in 2011. IWM (Imperial War Museums) is a leading authority on conflict and its impact, from the First World War to the present. A family of five museums, IWM illustrates and records all aspects of modern war and of the individual's experience of it, whether allied or enemy, service or civilian, military or political, social or cultural.