Operation Dragoon: The Liberation of Southern France 1944

by Anthony Tucker-Jones

Book Overview

Operation Dragoon was pivotal in Europe's liberation, despite controversy and high-level disputes.

Operation Dragoon, the Allied landings in the south of France in August 1944, is often seen as a sideshow supporting Operation Overlord, the crucial D-Day landings in Normandy. And often the operation is criticized as an expensive diversion of men and equipment from the struggle against the German armies in Italy. Yet, as Anthony Tucker-Jones...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1036150178
• ISBN13: 9781036150174
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Politicized story

Be prepared for the first 100 pages hearing how Churchill was right in wanting to cancel Dragoon and how everyone else was wrong. Over and over and over again.