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Advocating Overlord : the D-Day strategy and the atomic bomb /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Padgett, Philip (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Operation Overlord.
World War, 1939-1945 > Diplomatic history.
Atomic bomb.
Table of Contents:
  • Symbol, the Casablanca Conference
  • Campaigns of attrition
  • Cossac's ninety days to deliver a plan
  • The Trident Conference's illusion of agreement
  • Mission to Moscow
  • Cossac's plan emerges
  • The green hornet
  • Hammer and tongs
  • Revolt in London and Washington
  • The fishing trip
  • From one attorney to another
  • The happy time at Birch Island
  • Plain speaking on the Potomac
  • A presidential directive
  • From the citadel to Blenheim on the Hudson
  • Overlord reaffirmed in Quebec
  • Bolero unleashed
  • Sealing the Quebec decisions
  • Epilogue.