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After D-Day - The U.S. Army Encounters the French (Hardcover)
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After D-Day - The U.S. Army Encounters the French (Hardcover)
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After D-Day is one of a small but growing body of works that
examine the Allied liberators of France. This study focuses on both
the French experience of the U.S. Army and the American soldiers'
reaction to the French during the liberation and its immediate
aftermath. Drawing on French and American archival materials, as
well as dozens of memoirs, diaries, letters, and newspapers, Robert
Lynn Fuller follows French and American interactions, starting in
the skies over France in 1942 and ending with the liberation of
Alsace in 1945. Fuller pays special attention to French life in the
war zones, where living under constant shelling offered a miserable
experience for those forced to endure it. The French stoically
withstood those travails-sometimes inflicted by the Americans-when
they saw their sacrifices as the price of liberation and victory
over Germany. As Fuller shows, when the French did not believe
afflictions brought by the Americans advanced the cause of success,
their tolerance waned, sometimes dramatically. Fuller maintains
that the Allied bombing of France was an important yet often
overlooked chapter of World War II, one that inflicted more death
and destruction than the ground war still to come. Yet the ground
campaign, which began with the Allied invasion of Normandy,
unleashed enormous violence that killed, injured, or rendered
homeless tens of thousands of French civilians. Fuller examines
French and American records of the fate of civilians in the
principal battle zones, Normandy and Lorraine, as well as in
overlooked liberated regions, such as Orl? (R)anais and Champagne,
that largely escaped widespread damage and casualties. Despite
French gratitude toward the Americans for the liberation of their
country, relations began to cool in the fall and winter of 1944 as
progress on the battlefield slowed and then appeared to reverse
with the German offensive in the Ardennes. Revealing in stark
detail the experiences of French civilians with the American
military, After D-Day presents a compelling coda to our
understanding of the Allied conquest of German-occupied France.
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