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Authors: Max Hastings
United States Navy, war in the Pacific
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Valducci, Sergeant
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Vandenburg, General Hoyt
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Vanderhour, Dean
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Varley, George
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Ver-sur-Mer
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Versailles
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Vierville
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Vierzig, Major
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Vimoutiers
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Vollmer, Robert
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Wagner, Quartermaster-General
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Walsh, Sergeant Bill
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Walz, Private Heinz
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Warlimont, Walter
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Warner, Major John
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Watson
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Wavell, General Archibald
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weapons
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weather stations, German
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Whitelaw, Major William
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Williams, Brigadier Bill
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transferred to 21st Army Group
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and ability of German officers
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on von Rundstedt
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and pre-invasion position of German troops
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and post-landing operations
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and the preservation of lives
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on Rommel
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on German soldiers
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and Montgomery’s reaction to GOODWOOD
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and Eisenhower’s assumption of direct control
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Williams, Sergeant Earl
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Williamson, Lieutenant-Colonel John
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Wilson, Lieutenant Andrew
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Wilson, Gunner Charles
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Wittman, Captain Michael
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Woll, Corporal
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Wood, Major-General John ‘P’
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wounded
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self-inflicted wounds
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Wright, Major
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Wyldbore-Smith, Colonel Brian
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Wyman, Brigadier
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XX Committee
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Zimmer, Private
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Zimmerman, Colonel Bodo
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OVERLORD
Max Hastings
, author of over twenty books, was born in 1945. He was a scholar at Charterhouse and University College, Oxford, before working as foreign correspondent for newspapers and BBC television, reporting from over fifty countries. He was editor of the
Daily Telegraph
for almost a decade, and then for six years edited the
Evening Standard
. He has won many awards for his journalism, particularly for his dispatches from the South Atlantic in 1982. He was knighted in 2002.
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3. Before D-Day: American Airborne pathfinders pose beside their Dakota. Private
4.
Matériel
massed for the invasion.
Imperial War Museum6. Richardson is third from the right in the second row, wearing helmet.
F.O. Richardson7. American soldiers are briefed for D-Day.
Imperial War Museum10. D-Day: on the beach.
Imperial War Museum12. Beach defenders surrender to the Americans.
U.S. Army photograph13. The build-up: American troops move inshore from the beaches.
U.S. Army photograph15. Phil Reisler (right, in black) with his tank crew.
25. Panzer leaders: Fritz Bayerlein, Kurt Kauffmann, Sepp Dietrich, staff officer.
Airborne images of the battlefield:
35. Norman chalk pitted with foxholes
Imperial War Museum.36. Fighter-bomber’s eye view of a German column after attack
U.S. Air Force.37. Tank action among the hedges.
Imperial War Museum.41. Defeat: a prisoner being searched by a British military policeman.
BBC Hulton Picture LibraryGlimpses in Normandy of “the most professionally skilful army of modern times” as a distinguished American historian has recently described the Wehrmacht:
50. Self-propelled
Nebelwerfers
– of all German weapons, those most detested by Allied soldiers.51. With
Panzerfaust,
their formidable close-quarter anti-tank weapon.58. Devastation: a typical Norman street scene in the summer of 1944.
BBC Hulton Picture Library59. German Volksgrenadier on the Western Front.
Ullstein Bilderdienst.61. A classic portrait of the British infantryman in Normandy.
BBC Hulton Picture Library
