During the fifth year of the Second World War (1944), the Allied forces were planning the blueprints for the largest naval, air, and infantry invasion in the history of the world. This offensive was deemed the codename “Operation Overlord,” better known to the public as The Battle of Normandy. There were three major Allied countries involved in the invasion of D-day: The United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States of America. The invasion would begin with a heavy bombardment of German-held beach defensives on coast of Normandy, France, followed by a influx of landing crafts filled with thousands of soldiers. There were five beach sectors deemed for the invasion: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Sword, and Juno beach. Both the works from Carlo D’Este, “Decision
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He called for this book to be the true story of the eighty-day campaign that led to Germany’s defeat in the West, and he does this by acknowledging both the successes and failures of the Allied invasion (Montgomery in particular). D’Este tends to focus heavily on the British sector of the Normandy campaign, and he has an important reason for this; General Bernard Montgomery. The detailed planning of Operation Overlord was spearheaded by military commanders of Allied nations. Although, the post D-day plan of the campaign was dictated to the ground-commander of Normandy, British commander, General Bernard Montgomery. Montgomery, “Monty” as his nickname was, is followed closely by D’Este’s work. There is a chief criticism that surrounds Montgomery’s D-day+ plan, and this problem surrounds the Battles of Caen and Falaise. This criticism of Montgomery comes from his apparent lack of accepting adaptation when an operation doesn 't go as planned. For instance, the Allies did not capture Caen in the timely fashion Montgomery had thought, although instead of acknowledging the fact that his plan had backfired, he simply stated thats the way he planned it. Montgomery highly disliked admitting that he was fallible, and occasionally forced to improvise on a plan that would warrant success. This non-truth aspect of Montgomery created speculation and debate to this day about the real D-day+ plan that he had originally developed. The main idea behind D’Este’s work was to write the truth behind The Battle of Normandy. He writes a detailed analysis of the tactical and strategic ways in which the Allied forces progressed through the invasion, and how Montgomery and other Allied commanders communicated. The book tends to follow General Bernard Montgomery closely, and shows
He called for this book to be the true story of the eighty-day campaign that led to Germany’s defeat in the West, and he does this by acknowledging both the successes and failures of the Allied invasion (Montgomery in particular). D’Este tends to focus heavily on the British sector of the Normandy campaign, and he has an important reason for this; General Bernard Montgomery. The detailed planning of Operation Overlord was spearheaded by military commanders of Allied nations. Although, the post D-day plan of the campaign was dictated to the ground-commander of Normandy, British commander, General Bernard Montgomery. Montgomery, “Monty” as his nickname was, is followed closely by D’Este’s work. There is a chief criticism that surrounds Montgomery’s D-day+ plan, and this problem surrounds the Battles of Caen and Falaise. This criticism of Montgomery comes from his apparent lack of accepting adaptation when an operation doesn 't go as planned. For instance, the Allies did not capture Caen in the timely fashion Montgomery had thought, although instead of acknowledging the fact that his plan had backfired, he simply stated thats the way he planned it. Montgomery highly disliked admitting that he was fallible, and occasionally forced to improvise on a plan that would warrant success. This non-truth aspect of Montgomery created speculation and debate to this day about the real D-day+ plan that he had originally developed. The main idea behind D’Este’s work was to write the truth behind The Battle of Normandy. He writes a detailed analysis of the tactical and strategic ways in which the Allied forces progressed through the invasion, and how Montgomery and other Allied commanders communicated. The book tends to follow General Bernard Montgomery closely, and shows