By Anthony Tucker-Jones
From Baird Maritime:
Oft misinterpreted and much misunderstood, the Allied landings in southern France took place two months after the much better known Normandy landings of D-Day, June 6, 1944.
The author, an enthusiastic re-thinker of conventional military history thinking, has made a very detailed investigation of what really happened in the Mediterranean that summer.
He shows very clearly that Operation Dragoon was not, as if often claimed, a sideshow to the main event in Normandy. After considerable disagreement, Eisenhower, Churchill and de Gaulle proved that the French, British and Americans really could work together effectively. They also managed to co-ordinate well with the French Resistance in this operation.
The result of this amazing co-operation, supported by a massive logistics exercise, afloat and ashore, was a major contributor to the eventual Allied victory. This book is a very worthwhile contribution to this ongoing controversy.
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Pen and Sword Books