Craig L. Symonds (Get this book) A fine D-Day study both technical and humanitarian. Symonds portrays the American generals as childishly overeager for a European invasion, while the Britons remained prudent and restrained; indeed, American inexperience emerged in the first trying months of the Tunisian campaign. As the plans for a cross-Channel combined operation were assembled, Symonds reviews the staggering requirements in shipping alone--e.g., the building of key landing craft, cargo ships and Higgins boats to transport the materiel and men. He also examines the troop preparation of 1 million Americans spread across bucolic southern England in his suspenseful buildup to D-Day--a graspable, moving spectacle of men and machinery. A work that manages to be both succinct and comprehensive in scope.--Kirkus
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