D’Este, Carlo.

Decision in Normandy – The Unwritten Story of Montgomery and the Allied Campaign.

London, Collins, 1983. 14.5 cm x 23.5 cm. 555 pages. Several black and white photographs throughout as well as maps and tables. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear to dustjacket mostly. Out of print.

Includes for example the following essays: The Birth of Operation Overlord / A Time for Decision / Caen: The Search for a Strategy / Epsom: The Battle for the Odon / The Price of Caution / D+30: Stalemate / Operation Goodwood / Into the Cauldron / Cobra / The Normandy Myth etc.

Decision in Normandy offers a fresh and revolutionary new perspective on the Allied campaign in Normandy in 1944, so much so that Nigel Hamilton, The biographer of Montgomery, considers that it will ‘keep historians arguing for a decade’. (from front flap)

• Keywords: 20th Century Military History · Battles · Normandy · World History · World War II · World War Two · World War, 1939-1945
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0002170566
• Inventory Number: 60253AB

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