The 56th Infantry Brigade and D-Day: An Independent Infantry Brigade and the Campaign in North West Europe 1944-1945

by Andrew Holborn

Trained as an assault brigade, the 56th landed on D-Day and successfully liberated Bayeux the following day. It was then employed in the crossing of the River Seine and the assault on Le Havre, before fighting across Belgium and Holland culminating in the final assault on Arnhem in April 1945, by which time the brigade had served in four different divisions.

No previous study has sought to explain how an infantry brigade is used in battle,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441119086
• ISBN13: 9781441119087
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher