The Defeat of Germany Then and Now Tapa dura - 2015

Old Harlow: Battle of Britain International, 2015. In December 1943, an American four-star general was appointed to lead the huge operation - code-named "Overlord" - which had been planned by Britain and the United States to defeat Germany. To that end, General Dwight D. Eisenhower arrived in London in January 1944 to establish his headquarters as Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF). Although over 500 correspondents, photographers and broadcasters had been accredited by the Public Relations Division to cover the invasion of France due to take place in four months' time, SHAEF also decided to issue its own daily communiques, charting the progress of the battle, to be released under the signature of a former US pressman, Lieutenant Colonel D. Reed Jordon, the Chief of the Communications Section. Over the following months nearly 400 communiques were released by SHAEF and these are reproduced in the book. They were designed mainly as a guide for the press covering battlefield activities,… Leer más

Hardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; This book illustrates the battles by the western Allies to liberate western Europe during the Second World War and follows the fighting, month by month, beginning with D-Day in Normandy until signatures on a document in Berlin eleven mo

After the Battle, 2015. Hardcover. New. 544 pages. 11.97x8.62x1.61 inches.