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By June 1944, Juno Beach was a key part of Hitler's vaunted Atlantic Wall, with no less than four major strong points along its length. German pillboxes were sited to sweep the beaches with machine gun fire and were surrounded by belts of barbed wire and mines. Leading the attack were the 3rd Canadian Division, supported by the specialist assault tanks of the 79th Armoured Division (Hobart's 'Funnies'). Despite careful planning, poor D-Day weather...
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The infamous SS Das Reich Division was resting in Montauban, South West France when the Allies invaded Normandy in June 1944. When ordered to rush North, they ran into a series of French Resistance, SAS and SOE delaying actions. This ruthless Division reacted violently and their reprisals culminated in the Massacre at Oradour. This book tells the story of those heroic and tragic days from the British, French and German viewpoints.
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Battlefront - WWII Road To Victory volume 3
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Early in the war, the Germans decide they need to guarantee access to the Norwegian port of Narvik to ensure their supplies of Swedish iron ore. The British, however, send destroyers to up-end the German plan.
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Battlefront - WWII Road To Victory volume 15
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Erwin Rommel battles Allied forces in North Africa in 1942.
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Battlefront - WWII Road To Victory volume 24
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As the United States prepared for the invasion of the Philippines, scheduled for late 1944, the tiny Palau Islands had to be taken first.
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Battlefront - WWII Road To Victory volume 21
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Bloody fighting erupts on a group of tiny Pacific islands in November 1943.
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Battlefront - WWII Road To Victory volume 9
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During a two-hour surprise attack on the American Pacific fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor, Japanese navy pilots score a near-complete victory.
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Battlefront - WWII Road To Victory volume 28
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Both political and military expediency were factors in the return of the French capital to its people.
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Battlefront - WWII Road To Victory volume 12
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For the first time since Americans entered the war, Marines face Japanese infantrymen at Guadal Canal. In the jungles, two powerful armies clash in a six month battle that claims nearly 30,000 lives.
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Battlefront - WWII Road To Victory volume 18
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Fresh from victory in North Africa, the Allies successfully invade the island of Sicily, staging an eventual Italian withdrawal from the war.
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Battlefront - WWII Road To Victory volume 6
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After British forces withdrew in defeat from Greece to the island of Crete in early 1941, they were soon fighting German invasion armies again. This time, 5,000 of Hitler's elite paratroopers landed to complete their conquest in the Mediterranean.
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Battlefront - WWII Road To Victory volume 35
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German forces retreat across the Rhine on the Remagen bridge near the close of the war.
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Battlefront - WWII Road To Victory volume 38
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Heavily armed vessels disguised as ordinary cargo ships patrolled allied waters, sinking supply boats and stealing their content.
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Battlefront - WWII Road To Victory volume 31
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American B-29 high-altitude bomber attacks Japan near the end of World War II.
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Battlefront - WWII Road To Victory volume 37
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In 1945, Soviet and American troops press Hitler's armies from the west and the east, culminating in the fall of Berlin.
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Battlefront - WWII Road To Victory volume 33
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The December 1944 battle pitting American forces against German Panzer divisions in the Ardennes Forest.
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Battlefront - WWII Road To Victory volume 40
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U-boats posed the deadliest threat to Allied convoys traveling the Atlantic.
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Battlefront - WWII Road To Victory volume 39
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The development of the B-17 bomber, which allowed American planes to reach inside Germany and bomb its cities.
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Battlefront - WWII Road To Victory volume 32
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The Battle of the Gothic Line in 1944.
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Battlefront - WWII Road To Victory volume 36
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Kamikaze pilots guard the island of Okinawa from American forces.
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