D-Day: Those who Were ThereThe logistics of landing almost 250,000 men on a 60-mile stretch of heavily fortified coastline are almost unimaginable. By Whitsun 1944, Britain had began to resemble a vast military warehouse, with jeeps and trucks parked along what seemed like every road in the south and west of England, tanks ranked in carparks and forecourts, and rows upon rows of bombs stored under tarpaulin in fields - all labelled "Europe". The roads were jammed with soldiers in transit, all trains were requisitioned for the troops, and women knew that their menfolk 'somewhere in southern England' might be one of that perilous first wave across the Channel. |
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... France will surrender and that we shall be bombed and invaded . I am quite lucidly aware that in three weeks from now Sissinghurst may be a waste and Vita and I both dead . Yet these probabilities do not fill me with despair . I seem to ...
... France will surrender and that we shall be bombed and invaded . I am quite lucidly aware that in three weeks from now Sissinghurst may be a waste and Vita and I both dead . Yet these probabilities do not fill me with despair . I seem to ...
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... France in an attempt to reduce the build - up of German forces and matériel in France prior to D - Day . The operations were very suc- cessful in these terms : by mid - May rail traffic between Germany and France had dropped by fifty ...
... France in an attempt to reduce the build - up of German forces and matériel in France prior to D - Day . The operations were very suc- cessful in these terms : by mid - May rail traffic between Germany and France had dropped by fifty ...
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... France and Germany had fallen by 50 per cent ; rail traffic inside France was reduced to 20 per cent and between March and June 1944 1,500 French locomotives were destroyed.63 Perhaps a good example of the significance of the bombing ...
... France and Germany had fallen by 50 per cent ; rail traffic inside France was reduced to 20 per cent and between March and June 1944 1,500 French locomotives were destroyed.63 Perhaps a good example of the significance of the bombing ...
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Part Three Managing Tame Problems | 151 |
Part Four Commanding in Crises | 305 |
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