VICTORY IN THE WEST ATLAS THE BATTLE OF NORMANDY & THE DEFEAT OF GERMANY UNITED KINGDOM MILITARY SERIES: OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN HISTORY

A full and useful assembly of all 96 General: Situation & Sketch maps from the UNITED KINGDOM MILITARY SERIES: OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN HISTORY – VICTORY IN THE WEST: THE BATTLE OF NORMANDY & THE DEFEAT OF GERMANY.
The maps are in chronological order, full size and faithful to the original cartography in all respects, allowing the reader to follow the liberation of German-occupied western Europe in 1944-45, from D-Day itself with its airborne assaults, the naval bombardment and seaborne landings on Gold, Juno, Sword, Utah and Omaha beaches. The hard fighting as the Allies secured their bridgehead and pushed inland, capturing Cherbourg and Caen, and enveloped the main German defending armies at the battle of the Falaise Gap. The liberation of Paris. Montgomery’s plan to ‘leapfrog’ the River Rhine, and Eisenhower’s ‘broad front’ advance. The failure of the British attempt to outflank the Germans with the airborne landings at Arnhem. The slow Allied advance into the Low Countries. Hitler’s attempted audacious counterattack through the snowbound Ardennes which, after initial success, was thrown back in the ‘Battle of the Bulge’. The final fighting and the crossing of the Rhine in March 1945.

THE FULL INVENTORY OF MAPS & PLANS INCLUDED IN THIS ATLAS ARE AS LISTED
NORMANDY

GENERAL MAPS
Central Europe- At the outbreak of war, 3rd September 1939
The Normandy Battlefield
The British Assault Area
The Odon Battlefield
St Lo to Falaise

SITUATION MAPS
German Army Dispositions, dawn 6th June 1944
The British Assault Area- Situation midnight 6th June
The American Assault Area- Situation 6th June
Situation morning 10th JuneVillers-Bocage, 11th to 15th june
Situation midnight 17th June
The Epsom Battle, 24th June to 1st July
Situation midnight 30th June
Capture of Caen, 7th to 9th July
The Goodwood Battle Plan
The Goodwood Battle, 18th to 20th July
Situation midnight 24th July
The Break-out, 24th to 31st July
Situation midnight 31st July
Caumont and Mt Picon, 29th July to 6th August
Mortain Counter-Attack, 6th and 7th August
The Envelopment, 1st to 6th August
Capture of Falais, 7th to 16th August
The Falaise Pocket, 16th to 20th August
The Crrossing of the Seine and Advance to the Somme, 21st August ti 1st September

DIAGRAMS AND SKETCH MAPS
Combined Chiefs of Staff Organisation
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force
German Armies in the West, June 1944
Operation “Neptune”- Air cover for the assault on D-day
Assault Force- Army Organisation
British Supply System
Mulberry Harbour at Arromanches, 4th September 1944- D+90 days
Zerstorungskarte Mai 1944 (Railway Destruction)
Operation “Neptune”- Convoy routes and naval covering forces
Fly-in Routes of the American Airborne Divisions
Operation “Neptune”- The Naval Bombardment
Organisation of the Seaborne Assault- British Second Army
“King” Beach in “Gold” Area- Showing the German Defences as known to Allied Intelligence, May 1944
Organisation of the Seaborne Assault- United States First Army
Beach Organisation- The British Sector
Seeward Defence System- Assault Area
British and German Forces, July 1944
Battle Forcast Diagrams: I, II, and III
Zerstorungskarte Juni, July 1944 (Railway Destruction)
The Rear Maintenance Area- Layout early August 1944
Europe, 5th June and 1st September 1944
Overlord- Chain of Command
German Naval Command Group West, June 1944
German Air Force in the West, June 1944- Location of headquarters

DEFEAT OF GERMANY

GENERAL MAPS
Central Europe- At the outbreak of war , 3rd September 1939
Le Havre
Arnhem
Boulogne
The Scheldt
The Ardennes
Rhineland- Operation Veritable
Rhinelans- Operation Grenade

SITUATION MAPS
Situation morning 1st September 1944
The Arnhem Operation, September
1st Airborne Division Perimeter- Oosterbeek, 20th September
September Progress
Venlo Sector, October
The Maas and the Roer, November December
The November Offensives
The Ardennes, Situation 24th December 1944
The Ardennes, Situation 16th January 1945
Nijmegen Bridgehead, December 1944
Operation Blackcook, January 1945
The Southern Front, January
Closing the Rhine, February-March
Rhine Crossing, Twenty-First Army Group, March
Advance to the Baltic, April-May
To Leipzig and the Danube, American Advance April-May 1945

SKETCH MAPS
The Broad and Narrow Fronts
The Arnhem Plan
Fly-in Routes of the Airborne Divisions, September 1944
Calais
Scheldt Estuary
The Breskens Pocket
Walcheren
The Allies’ Supply System, 1st December
Bomb Attacks on German Communication, 17th to 27th December 1944
Germany, Occupation Zones
Strategic Air Offensive, January to March 1945
The Ruhr and Strategic Air Offensive in Ruhr, January to March
Antwerp Approaches
Kapelsche Veer
Rhineland Operations, Twenty First Army Group, February
German Defence Sector North of Reichwald, January
The German National Redoubt
Allied Advances, March to May 1945
Western Holland