Gunners in Normandy
The History Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7509-9044-8 (ISBN)
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The official account of the Royal Artillery’s activities in the Normandy campaign, this volume breaks down the historic achievements of the Regiment, integrating newly published research with a detailed account of their activities, logistics and equipment in the offensive.
Essential for currently serving members of the Royal Artillery, Gunners in Normandy includes mention of every regiment that served, a Roll of Honour, and a list of the dead by unit.
This book presents the definitive record of events, assembled from interviews with veterans, papers and documents from the Firepower Archives, terrain studies, personal memoirs, war diaries and other official documents. Serious students of the battle for Normandy should find this essential reading, with comprehensive coverage of the role of the Royal Artillery, and much material not published anywhere else, including orders of battle, the details of targets engaged by the guns and their effectiveness.
Major FRANK BALDWIN is a retired artillery officer and a member of the British Commission for Military History. He has worked as a battlefield guide for the last 20 years, actively involved in writing historic material to support tours and pilgrimages undertaken by the Royal British Legion. He is the author of numerous published works and has a regular column in the Battlefields Trust Magazine. He is also responsible for the blog The Observation Post. Lieutenant Colonel WILL TOWNEND was project officer for Firepower and secretary of the RA Historical Society. His passion, enthusiasm and meticulous research made this book possible. Sadly, Will died in 2010.
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Copyright
Contents
List of Images and Extracts
Foreword by Sir Andrew Richard Gregory
Preface
1 Background to Overlord
2 The Men of the Gunners
3 Artillery Equipment and Organisations
4 The Gunners in 1944 – Artillery Tactics
5 Training for D-Day
6 Preparation for Overlord
7 The D-Day Plan
8 D-Day and D+1
9 Consolidating the Bridgehead
10 Rebuff Operation Perch and Operation Smock
11 Operation Epsom 19 June–1 July 1944
12 The Fall of Caen 4–11 July 1944
13 Operations Jupiter and Maori
14 The Anti-Aircraft Battle
15 The 12th and 30th Corps Keep the Pot Boiling
16 Operations Goodwood and Atlantic
17 Operations Spring and Cobra
18 Operation Bluecoat
19 Operations Totalize and Tractable
20 Squeezing the Pocket
21 The Advance Over the Seine
22 The Counter-Battery and Depth Fire Battle
23 The Soldier’s Experience
24 Other Gunners
25 The Gunner Contribution to Operation Overlord
Appendix A Artillery Commanders
Appendix B Roll of Honour
Appendix C Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.04.2020 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 32 Plates, color; 16 Plates, black and white; 35 Illustrations, color; 69 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Stroud |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7509-9044-9 / 0750990449 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7509-9044-8 / 9780750990448 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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