Pen and Sword Books: Operation Dragoon by Anthony Tucker-Jones

Operation Dragoon (6 reviews)

The Liberation of Southern France 1944

by Anthony Tucker-Jones
Imprint: Pen & Sword Military
Found in: World War Two Books
Hardback
224 pages
ISBN: 9781848841406
Published: 15 October 2009

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Operation Dragoon, the Allied landings in the south of France in August 1944, is seen as a sideshow supporting Operation Overlord, the crucial D-Day landings in Normandy. Often the operation is criticized as an expensive diversion of men and equipment from the struggle against the German armies in Italy. Yet, as Anthony Tucker-Jones shows in his new in-depth study, Dragoon and the subsequent Allied advance across southern France played a central role in the liberation of Europe, and the operation had far-reaching political and military ramifications.

Controversy dogged the plan from the start. Fierce disagreement among the senior Allied commanders and politicians - in particular between Churchill, Eisenhower and de Gaulle - threatened to weaken the Anglo-American war effort. In vivid detail
Anthony Tucker-Jones tells the story of the high-level strategic arguments that gave birth to Dragoon, and he looks at the impact of the operation on the direction and duration of the war against Nazi Germany.

He also recounts the course of the invasion on the ground - the massive logistical effort required, the landings themselves, the role played by the French resistance, and the bitter battles fought against German rearguards as they sought to retain France's southern cities and cover their withdrawal toward the strategic Belfort Gap.

"The Allied invasion of Southern France, in August 1944, is a subject that is unfamiliar if not unknown to most with only a casual interest in the Second World War, not least because this "other... [read full review]

Pegasus Archive - Mark Hickman

Oft Misinterpreted and much misunderstood,the allied landings in southern France took place two months after the much better known Normandy landings of D-Day, June 6 ,1944,
The author an enthusiastic re-thinker of conventional military history... [read full review]

work Boat World Magazine

Oft misinterpreted and much misunderstood, the Allied landings in Southern France took place two months after the much better known Normandy landings of D-Day. The author, an enthusiastic re-thinker of conventional military history thinking, has... [read full review]

Work Boat World

Often misinterpreted and much misunderstood, the Allied landings in southern France took place two months after the much better known Normandy landings of D-Day, June 6, 1944.

The author, an enthusiastic re-thinker of conventional... [read full review]

Baird Maritime

Anthony Tucker-Jones has produced a well-researched and very readable account of these events, viewed from the political and strategic levels.

Tank Journal

Tucker-Jones's work benefits from his decision to place Operation Dragoon in its wider context, which was rather more important than the campaign itself. The result is a book that sheds some valuable light on a... [read full review]

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