卡昂是1944年6月6日D日的一个目标，直到8月6日才落入英国和加拿大第二集团军的手中，当时该市的大部分地区已沦为废墟。两个月的斗争是诺曼底战役的关键阶段，正如西蒙·四十在这部摄影史上所展示的，这是最具争议的阶段之一。他详细、生动的叙述让读者对敌对部队、条件、地形、装备和部署的武器有了引人入胜的了解，并说明了地面上的战斗是多么激烈和持久。盟军进展缓慢的原因一直备受争议。英国和加拿大的装备和战术不足，以及德国抵抗的顽强性都受到了指责。最终，盟军的一系列行动削弱了守军的力量，正是这些行动珀奇、马特莱、爱普索姆、温莎、查恩伍德、朱庇特、大西洋、古德伍德在这本书所选的引人注目的照片中具有强烈的特色。他们以最戏剧化的方式记录了战斗的性质，并展示了即使是党卫军师和重型坦克营最终也是如何被击败的。
Normandy 1944: The Battle for Caen (Images of War)
Caen, a D-Day objective on 6 June 1944, did not fall to the British and Canadian troops of Second Army until 6 August, by which time much of the city had been reduced to rubble. The two-month struggle was a crucial stage in the Normandy campaign and, as Simon Forty demonstrates in this photographic history, one of the most controversial.His detailed, graphic account gives the reader a fascinating insight into the opposing forces, the conditions, the terrain, the equipment and weaponry deployed and it illustrates just how intense and protracted the fighting was on the ground.The reasons for the slow Allied advance have been hotly disputed. Deficiencies in British and Canadian equipment and tactics have been blamed, as has the tenacity of the German resistance. Ultimately a sequence of Allied operations sapped the defenders strength, and it is these operations Perch, Martlet, Epsom, Windsor, Charnwood, Jupiter, Atlantic, Goodwood that feature strongly in the striking photographs that have been selected for this book.They record in the most dramatic fashion the character of the fighting and show how even the SS divisions and heavy tank battalions were eventually defeated.
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