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Eisenhower's Guerillas - The Jedburghs, the Maquis, and the Liberation of France (Hardcover)
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Eisenhower's Guerillas - The Jedburghs, the Maquis, and the Liberation of France (Hardcover)
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In the run-up to the invasion of Normandy in June 1944, General
Dwight D. Eisenhower faced a series of seemingly insurmountable
dilemmas. Outnumbered and desperate for any advantage to make their
way past the well-defended beaches and into France, the Allies had
reached out to French guerillas and partisans to help secure their
aims-but transforming the highly independent resistance groups into
a governable body and fighting force was a formidable task. To make
matters more difficult, President Roosevelt refused to give full
Allied support to Charles de Gaulle and his Free French government,
and would not supply the timing, location, and other key details of
Operation Overlord. It was into this storm of political mistrust
and military confusion that Eisenhower sent the Jedburghs.
Eisenhower's Guerillas tells the story of the reconnaissance and
intelligence teams of young Special Forces, called Jedburghs, who
worked behind enemy lines to strengthen the Allies' position in
Northern France. Their task of organizing and training the French
operatives, already monumental, was made more difficult by the fact
that France's war aims were profoundly different from those of
America and Britain, who regarded France as merely a military
objective on the way to defeating Germany. Ben Jones describes how
Eisenhower learned how to exploit this political turmoil to his
advantage, and explores how the Allied Jedburgh teams still managed
to coordinate French guerrilla operations within the overall plans
for the country's liberation. Underscoring the critical and often
overlooked part that irregular warfare played in Allied operations
on the Continent, Jones delivers a riveting story of the battle for
France and the political complexities that threatened to undermine
the operation from within.
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