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050 00 $aD756$b.D389 2001
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100 1 $aDelaforce, Patrick.
245 10 $aSmashing the Atlantic Wall :$bthe destruction of Hitler's coastal fortresses /$cPatrick Delaforce.
260 $aLondon :$bCassell Military ;$aNew York, NY :$bDistributed in the United States by Sterling Pub. Co.,$c2001.
300 $a240 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: I Adolf Hitler's Fortress-Ports and the Secret Edicts 15 -- 2 Churchill and the Second Front 44 -- 3 Operation Neptune: Naval Operation Orders 52 -- 4 The Capture of Cherbourg: 'A field of devastation' 6o -- 5 Von Aulock's Gallant Defence of St Malo 79 -- 6 The Taking of Brest: 'A symbolic Value' 9g -- 7 The Mousetrap War: Containing the Atlantic Fortress-Ports -- 8 Rouen and the Return to Dieppe II4 -- 9 The Capture of Antwerp: 'A stunning surprise' I20 -- 10 Dunkirk: 'An unknown, undramatic, dirty little war' I27 -- II Ostend and Zeebrugge Cleared I34 -- 12 The Capture of Le Havre: Operation Astonia I37 -- I3 The Capture of Boulogne: Operation Wellhit 144 -- 14 The Capture of Calais and Cap Gris-Nez: Operation Undergo -- I5 Scheldt Operation: 'It lacked glamour' I6I -- I6 Operation Angus: Clearing South Beveland Isthmus I69 -- 17 Hitler's Scheldt Fortress South: Operation Switchback I75 -- i8 Operation Vitality i: 'Felt increasingly forgotten' I83 -- 19 Operation Vitality Ii: Lowland Division in Action i88 -- 20 Operation Infatuate i: 'It was very nasty' I90 -- 2I Operation Infatuate II: 'All hell was let loose' I94 -- 22 Operation Calender: 'Delight in getting mines' 207 -- 23 A Kind of Odd-Job Formation 212 -- 24 The Logistical War of Supply and Demand 215 -- 25 The Verdronken Land: The Drowned Land 222 -- Bibliography 225 -- Glossary 226 -- Canadian Forces 230 -- Index 231.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xCampaigns$zWestern Front.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/orion051/2002318355.html
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy022/2002318355.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/ste021/2002318355.html