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Defeat of Germany: Then and Now (Hardcover)
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Defeat of Germany: Then and Now (Hardcover)
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In December 1943, an American four-star general was appointed to
lead the huge operation - code-named "Overlord" - which had been
planned by Britain and the United States to defeat Germany. To that
end, General Dwight D. Eisenhower arrived in London in January 1944
to establish his headquarters as Supreme Commander Allied
Expeditionary Force (SHAEF). Although over 500 correspondents,
photographers and broadcasters had been accredited by the Public
Relations Division to cover the invasion of France due to take
place in four months' time, SHAEF also decided to issue its own
daily communiques, charting the progress of the battle, to be
released under the signature of a former US pressman, Lieutenant
Colonel D. Reed Jordon, the Chief of the Communications Section.
Over the following months nearly 400 communiques were released by
SHAEF and these are reproduced in the book. They were designed
mainly as a guide for the press covering battlefield activities, so
descriptions of the horror, the suffering, and the destruction that
go with each shell fired and each bomb dropped were purposely left
to the scores of talented news and photo reporters nearer the
action. Alongside the measured text of the official communiques
hundreds of photographs - many complete with censor deletions -
taken by war photographers in France, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg
and Germany, are reproduced alongside 'then and now' comparison
photos taken by After the Battle. Illustrating the battles by the
western Allies to liberate western Europe, we follow the fighting
month by month, beginning with D-Day in Normandy until signatures
on a document in Berlin eleven months later denoted the final
defeat of Nazi Germany.
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