D-Day 1944: Utah Beah and US Airborne Landings Pt.2 (Osprey Campaign) |
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Steven J. Zaloga
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Pages: 96 (Paperback)
ISBN: 1841763659
Pub: Osprey Publishing
Pub date: 2004-02-18
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 103984
Reader Reviews:
Too big a subject for the size of the book (0/0 people found this helpful)
As a collector of the books in Osprey's Campaign Series covering World War Two, I was a little disappointed in this effort. As usual, Steven Zaloga writes a clear narrative of the events; however this book just tries to cover too much. In addition to covering Utah beach and the US airborne landing, the account also deals with the US VII Corp advance from the beachhead and the assault on Cherbourg. The main problem is that the account of the US airborne operations is very selective with quite detailed accounts of some of their actions and others just ignored. I would have preferred to see the US follow up assaults on Cherbourg and St.Lo covered under a separate title. Although Osprey now has eight titles in its Campaign series covering the battle for Normandy (including the early overview of the whole campaign) it would appear that the US army's operations against St.Lo will be missing from the list.
Day of Days but not Book of Books (0/0 people found this helpful)
Usual high quality Ken Ford book. Good effort, informative. Tedious read at times and just following unit numbers across Northern France doesn't make it the personal experience one wishes for.
Too expensive as usual with Osprey lately.
Makes good collection with the other three books.
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