D-Day-June 6, 1944-is seared into popular consciousness: 160,000
Allied troops landed along 50 miles of French coastline to battle
German forces on the beaches of Normandy, suffering devastating
losses in an invasion that would eventually lead to the liberation
of Western Europe. Though it has been studied, discussed, and
debated extensively, histories of D-Day have typically overlooked
the incredible naval operation necessary for the invasion to
succeed: Operation Neptune. Involving over five thousand ships and
nearly half a million personnel, Neptune was the largest seaborne
assault in human history, without which the battles at Normandy
never could have taken place. In Neptune, renowned historian Craig
L. Symonds brilliantly traces the central thread of this Olympian
event from the first tentative conversations by British and
American officers in Washington in the winter of 1941 to the
storming of the beaches in the summer of 1944. With
characteristically vivid narration, he uncovers the various
components of the operation, including the strategic unity,
industrial productivity, sea control, and organizational execution
on which the Allied armies in Normandy depended. Symonds follows
key personalities, both British and American, from the
well-known-Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, George Marshall,
and "Ike " Eisenhower-to the less-prominent-Admiral Sir Bertram
Ramsay and his American counterpart Admiral Ernest J. King-to offer
an intimate look at the men involved in this exceptional campaign.
Operation Neptune was never a sure-thing, as Symonds shows, and
Neptune explores the disputes of the Anglo-American allies, the
demands of Russia, the dangers of German U-boats, and the hundreds
of logistical bottlenecks that could have undone the operation at
any time. From the suppressing of the U-boat menace in the Battle
of the Atlantic to the gearing up of the industrial machine to
produce the ships, tanks, landing craft, and other tools of war
that would make an invasion possible, Symonds' riveting narrative
uncovers the means by which Neptune was brought to fruition, and
presents for the first time a comprehensive history of the greatest
naval operation of the 20th century.
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