Bibliograph

The Pointblank Directive, three generals and the untold story of the daring plan that saved D-Day, L. Douglas Keeney

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The Pointblank Directive, three generals and the untold story of the daring plan that saved D-Day, L. Douglas Keeney

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-242) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Pointblank Directive

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

820719817

Responsibility statement

L. Douglas Keeney

Sub title

three generals and the untold story of the daring plan that saved D-Day

Summary

Where was the Luftwaffe on D-Day? Historians have debated that question for six decades, but in 2010 a formerly classified World War II D-Day history was restored, and in it were a new set of answers. Pointblank is the result of extensive new research using that newly restored history to create a richly textured portrait of air power and leadership, and perhaps the last untold story of D-Day: Three uniquely talented men and why, on the single most important day to the survival of the Third Reich, the German Air Force was unable to mount a single effective combat mission against the invasion forces

Table Of Contents

Airmen -- Autumn 1943 -- Pointblank -- Weather -- Spaatz -- Anywhere -- The clock ticks -- Formation -- Exhaustion -- Locusts -- Flak Boys -- Berlin -- April -- Invasion -- Secret weapons -- War plan -- Combat -- Dicing with the Devil -- May 1944 -- Deception -- June 1944 -- D-Day -- D+1

Target audience

adult

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