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Operation Neptune : the prelude to D-Day / by Wragg, David W.,author.(CARDINAL)144150;
Subjects: Operation Neptune.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Omaha Beach : D-Day, June 6, 1944 / by Balkoski, Joseph.(CARDINAL)275551;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-397) and index.
Subjects: Operation Neptune.;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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D-Day 1944 : Omaha and Utah Beaches / by Zaloga, Steve,1952-(CARDINAL)345416; Gerrard, Howard,illustrator.(CARDINAL)539160;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-180) and index.
Subjects: Operation Neptune.; Operation Overlord.; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Killing Bin Laden : Operation Neptune Spear 2011 / by Panzeri, Peter F.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 78-79) and index.Origins. The making of Osama bin Laden ; A jihadist education ; The Muslim Brotherhood ; The lessons of Beirut and Afghanistan -- al-Qaeda : "the base" -- al-Qaeda's long-term strategic plan -- Initial strategy. A ten-year manhunt ; Key leads : mistaking the courier ; To raid or not : a matter of decision ; Watching the Abbottabad compound ; Complicating factors ; The options -- The plan. The McRaven model ; Tactical objectives ; The aerial plan ; The assault plan -- The raid. The "Infil" ; Chalk one down ; To the heart of the compound ; "Geronimo : EKIA" ; Identifying the body ; The "Exfil" -- Aftermath -- Analysis. Relative superiority and the Spec Ops model ; Good intelligence and innovation.On May 2, 2011 a ten-year manhunt drew to a deadly end as the men of the US Naval Special Warfare Development Group (a.k.a. SEAL Team Six) closed in on their prey, Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind of the World Trade Center attack on September 11, 2001. Flown from Afghanistan by Army Special Operations Commands 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) and evading detection by the Pakistani military, two US helicopters flew towards the compound where they believed Bin Laden to be. Forty minutes later one helicopter had crashed and five people were dead, including the al-Qaeda leader. In this book the story of the raid is told, from start to finish, using specially commissioned full-colour artwork, photographs, and maps. The operation, codenamed Neptune Spear, is expertly analyzed and the events are told in a concise and clear account of its build-up, execution, and aftermath, demonstrating the skill and courage of the men who carried it out.
Subjects: Bin Laden, Osama, 1957-2011; United States. Navy. SEALs; United States. Naval Special Warfare Development Group.; Special operations (Military science); Special operations (Military science);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Bedford boys : one small town's D-Day sacrifice / by Kershaw, Alex.(CARDINAL)645293;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-242) and index.
Subjects: Operation Neptune.; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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The fog of war : Martha Gellhorn at the D-Day landings / by Corpora, Michelle Jabès,author.; Pinelli, Amerigo,illustrator.(CARDINAL)397272;
At the height of WWII, a courageous and determined woman makes history as the only female journalist to cover the D-Day landings of 1944, in this inspiring true story of seasoned war correspondent Martha Gellhorn.
Subjects: Children's stories.; Historical fiction.; Biographical fiction.; War fiction.; Gellhorn, Martha, 1908-1998; Women journalists; Operation Neptune; Operation Neptune;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The Bedford boys [sound recording]. by Kershaw, Alex.;
Read by William Dufris
Subjects: Operation Neptune.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Virginia -- Bedford.; Bedford (Va.) -- History.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The D-Day landing sites / by Rees, Bob.(CARDINAL)386714;
Includes bibliographical references (page 31) and index.
Subjects: Operation Neptune; Operation Overlord; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Landing on the edge of eternity : twenty-four hours at Omaha Beach / by Kershaw, Robert,1950-author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-365) and index.Introduction -- Prologue: 1:00 am.m June 6, 1944 -- The far shore: 1:00 a.m. to 4:30 a.m. -- Force "O": midnight to 3:30 a.m. -- The storm breaks: 2:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. -- Death ride: 4:15 a.m. to 6:30 a.m. -- First wave floundered: 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. -- Pointe du Hoc, "The Jib": 6:40 a.m. to 11:10 a.m. -- Win or lose?: 6:45 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. -- The crisis: 8:30 a.m. to midday -- Village fighting: 11:30 a.m. to dusk -- Tenuous foothold: 4:00 p.m. to midnight -- Beyond 24 hours.Drawn from eyewitness accounts, memories, letters, and post-combat reports, examines the first twenty-four hours of the Allied landing on Omaha Beach.
Subjects: Operation Neptune.; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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Landing on the edge of eternity : twenty-four hours at Omaha Beach / by Kershaw, Robert,1950-author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-352) and index.Early in 1944, German commander Field Marshal Erwin Rommel took a look at the sloping sands and announced "They will come here!" He was referring to "Omaha Beach". The beach was then transformed into three miles of lethal, bunker-protected arcs of fire, with seaside chalets converted into concrete strongpoints, with layers of barbed wire and mines. When Company A of the US 116th Regiment landed on Omaha Beach in D-Day's first wave on 6th June 1944, it lost 96% of its effective strength. This was the beginning of the historic day that Landing on the Edge of Eternity narrates hour by hour--midnight to midnight--tracking German and American soldiers fighting across the beachhead. The Wehrmacht thought they had bludgeoned the Americans into submission yet by mid-afternoon, the American troops were ashore. Why were the casualties so grim, and how could the Germans have failed? Juxtaposing the American experience--pinned down, swamped by a rising tide, facing young Wehrmacht soldiers fighting desperately for their lives, Kershaw draws on eyewitness accounts, memories, letters, and post-combat reports to expose the true horrors of Omaha Beach. Landing on the Edge of Eternity is a dramatic historical ride through an amphibious landing that looked as though it might never succeed.
Subjects: Operation Neptune.; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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