Format:
Online-Ressource (248 p)
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ill
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25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
1441119086
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9781441119087
Series Statement:
Continuum studies in military history
Content:
Trained as an assault brigade, the 56th landed on D-Day and successfully liberated Bayeux the following day. It was then employed in the crossing of the River Seine and the assault on Le Havre , before fighting across Belgium and Holland culminating in the final assault on Arnhem in April 1945, by which time the brigade had served in four different divisions. No previous study has sought to explain how an infantry brigade is used in battle, let alone one holding the title 'Independent'. Holborn considers the styles of war as carried out by British forces and casts new light on the effec
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-243) and index
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Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1 In the Wings. Continental War to Home Front. 2nd Battalions Essex, Glosters and South Wales Borderers. June 1940-December 1943; 2 Chosen for the Second Front. Training and Organization into 56th (Independent) Infantry Brigade. 1 January-25 May 1944; 3 From the Sealed Camps to Sailing for Normandy. 25 May-Evening 5 June 1944; 4 Smashing Through the German Defences and Achieving Objectives. D-Day-Midnight 7 June 1944; 5 Fighting in the Bocage. Château Sully to Tilly-sur-Seulles. 8-20 June 1944
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6 Holding the Right Flank - Desperate Fighting in the Bocage. 21 June-8 August 19447 Breakthrough. Suisse Normande to the Taking of Le Havre. 9 August-14 September 1944; 8 No Quick Defeat of the Enemy. Le Havre to Holland. September-November 1944; 9 The Nijmegen Home Guard and the Taking of Arnhem. December 1944-May 1945; Conclusion; Appendix 1 List of veterans contributing to this study; Appendix 2 Exercise Smash; Appendix 3 Exercise Fabius; Appendix 4 56th Brigade, order of beaching for D-Day; Appendix 5 56th Brigade reinforcement requirements; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781441198341
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781441111401
Additional Edition:
Print version 56th Infantry Brigade and D-Day : An Independent Infantry Brigade and the Campaign in North West Europe 1944-1945
Language:
English
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