Recounts the invasion of Normandy through the eyes of soldiers from three American regiments.
G. H. Bennett is Head of Humanities at the University of Plymouth, UK. He is the author or co-author of eight books, including Hitler's Admirals (2004), with R. Bennett, The Roosevelt Peacetime Administrations, 1933-1941: A Documentary History ( 2004), and An American Regiment in Devon: The 116th Infantry Regiment, Omaha Beach and the Photography of Olin Dows (2003).
Bennett examines the American involvement in the Normandy campaign
at the regimental level, focusing on the 22nd Infantry Regiment,
which landed on Utah Beach in June 1942 and became involved in a
war of siege against German fortifications; the 116th Infantry
Regiment, which took heavy casualties in forcing its way off Omaha
Beach and breaking through the Nazi's Atlantic Wall; and the 507th
Parachute Infantry Regiment, which suffered the worst misdrop of
any American parachute regiment and wound up fighting in isolated
groups for control of bridges, roads, and dry land in the midst of
a vast swampland.
*Reference & Research Book News*
In this superb and detailed study, Bennett continues to challenge
the assumption that the operation was an exemplary demonstration of
strategic planning.
*Lt. Colonel Robert A. Lynn, Florida Guard*
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