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Loading... Omaha Beach: A Flawed Victoryby Adrian R. Lewis
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A bit too analytic for my taste and preferences. Maybe some other day, at a pool side down south during a summer vacation with too much time at hand ;-) ( ) The evolution of coalition warfare during WW2 was costly, hindered by general officer egos and always required courage, leadership and casualties at the unit level to achieve success. Generals were rarely casualties, often promoted and typically wrote the "definitive" histories. This thoroughly researched, tightly focused analysis aptly demonstrates that retrospective scholarship is needed to penetrate the glow of victory that often obscures; needed and appropriate scrutiny by third parties. Lewis's epilogue is an excellent lens with which to scrutinize many of the subsequent battles in Europe. Place names changed, Caen, Falaise, Hurtgen, Antwerp but the same generals kept making mistakes and men died. no reviews | add a review
Lewis's assessment of the 1944 Allied invasion of Normandy traces the doctrine behind the operation, and argues that whilst the blame for the disastrous losses traditionally lay with leaders at the site, responsibility belonged to higher levels of operations and strategy planning. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)940.54History and Geography Europe Europe 1918- Military History Of World War IILC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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