D-Day UK : 100 locations in Britain
Forty, Simon2019
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The D-Day landings of 6th June 1944 were the culmination of months of meticulous planning and organisation. A vast army had to be trained and equipped; huge amounts of material - from tin cans to tank transporters, petrol to parachutes - had to be stockpiled, distributed and readied for transport to the beaches of Normandy; bombing missions had to reduce the enemy; fighters, minesweepers and other naval missions had to clear the English Channel; and, finally, the men had to embark and the armada had to deliver its cargo to a strict timetable under enemy fire onto a hostile shore. The hundred locations chosen for this book are a small collection of those places in Britain that were involved in the preparations for D-Day. It would have been easy to choose a hundred others: few parts of Britain were not part of the war effort.
Main title:
D-Day UK : 100 locations in Britain / Simon Forty.
Author:
Forty, Simon, author
Imprint:
Swindon : Historic England, 2019.
Collation:
224 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9781848025400 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1287770