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Contents
Preface
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Chapter One - Prelude
Dieppe
Controversy
Eve Of Battle
Cherbourg-Major Objective
Chapter Two - The Assault And Bridgehead On The Contentin Peninsula
Onset
The First Day
Counterattack
Fight To Hold The Bridgehead
Collins Ordered To Cross Cotentin Peninsula
Battle For La Fiere Causeway
Battle For Carentan Causeway And Carentan
Across The Douve River
Chapter Three - Westward To Barneville - North To Cherbourg
The 90th Infantry Division Fails
Battle For Saint-Saveur-le-Vicomte
Sealing Off The Cotentin Peninsula
General Collins Turns North
The Channel Storm
Chapter Four - The Battle For Cherbourg
Montebourg and Valognes Fall
Approach
Attack On The Perimeter Defense
Fortress Cherbourg Falls
Chapter Five - Clearing The Cotentin Peninsula
Offensive Begins
The Plan
Hitler And His Generals Disagree
France Joins The Battle
Getting Off The Beaches
Germans Reorganize
American Offensive Begins
Fighting On The High Ground
La Haye du Puits
VII Corps Enters The Offensive
Fierce Fighting Along Entire Front
Chapter Six - Breakthrough
Operation "Goodwood"
"Cobra" Preparation
Opposition
Operation "Cobra"
Germans Losing Ground
Ground Attack
Breakthrough
Across the Periers - St. Lo Road And Beyond
Armor Released
German Defenses Deteriorate
U. S. VIII Corps Applies Pressure
Enemy Withdraws
Clearing The Cotentin Peninsula
To Avranches
Chapter Seven - Advance Into Brittany
Reorganization Of Command
Quiberon Considered As A New Port
The 4th And 6th Armored Divisions Advance Beyond Communications
Congestion
A Good Week
Preparing For Brest
Chapter Eight - The North Shore And St. Malo
Task Force A
Ambush On The highway
Probing The Defense
The 83rd Infantry Division Diverted To St. Malo
One Fort At A Time
The Citadel Falls
Cezembre Holds Fast
Chapter Nine - Rennes, Lorient And Nantes
Rennes And Vance Secured
4th Armored Division Attacked On Outskirts Of Lorient
Lorient Contained
Nantes Secured
Chapter Ten - Battle For Brest
Surrender Offer Declined - Attack Delayed
Preparation For The Attack
Task Force B Committed
Task Force S Formed To Clear The Tip Of Brittany
Bombardment By Sea And Air
The Noose Tightens
Offer For Surrender Refused
"Let's Take Them Apart"
Lorient and St. Nazaire To Be Contained
Why Take Brest?
Chapter Eleven - Reflection On The Breton Ports
Chapter Twelve - St. Nazaire And Lorient - Prime Military Targets
Bombardment Breton Ports Began In 1940
Massive Losses To German U-Boats
Retaliation By Allied Air Forces
The French Resistance And FFI
French Forces Of The Interior (FFI) - Origin
The Resistance Movement In Morbihan And In The Loire Atlantic
The Battle Of La Nouette Farm
French Forces Mobilize For War
1944 - October, November, December
The 94th Infantry Division Takes Over
French Battle Germans South Of The Loire River
Sinking of The Leopoldville
The 66th Infantry (Black Panther) Division Relieves The 94th Infantry Divfision
Twelfth Army Group Coastal Sector
Containing The Pockets
Germans Surrender
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
Profiles
American
General Omar Nelson Bradley
General Mathew Bunker Ridgeway
General Maxwell Davenport Taylor
General James Maurice Gavin
General Joseph Lawton ("Lightning Joe") Collins
General Houston Middleton
German
Colonel Friedrich August Freherr von der Heydte
Field Marshall Karl Gerd von Rundstedt
Field Marswhall Johannes Eugen Rommel
Field Marshall Hans Gunther von Kluge
General Karl-Wilhelm von Schlieben
General Dietrich von Choltitz
General Hermann Ramke
General Paul "Papa" Hausser
Special
The Jedburghs
The Replacement
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Cotentin.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Brittany.