Atlas of the European Campaign

In June 1944 the Allies opened the long-awaited second front against Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, and this was to be the start of a long struggle throughout Western Europe for the Allied forces in the face of stiff German resistance.

The European Theatre was where the bulk of the Allied forces were committed in the struggle against Nazi Germany. It saw some of the most famous battles and operations of the war - Normandy, Market Garden, the Battle of the Bulge - as the Allies sought to liberate Western Europe in the face of bitter and hard-fought German resistance. From the beaches of D-Day through to the final battles in war-ravaged Germany, the war across the breadth and depth of Western Europe is brought to life through scores of carefully researched and intricately detailed maps.

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Steven J. Zaloga received his BA in History from Union College and his MA from Columbia University. He has worked as an analyst in the aerospace industry for four decades, covering missile systems and the international arms trade, and has served with the Institute for Defense Analyses, a federal think tank. He is the author of numerous books on military technology and history, including NVG 294 Allied Tanks in Normandy 1944 and NVG 283 American Guided Missiles of World War II. He currently lives in Maryland, USA.

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GLOSSARY AND ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION
Map 1: The European Theater of Operations - June 1944 to May 1945
Map 2: The Strategic Debate - 1942-44
Map 3: Precursors to Overlord - 1942-44
Map 4: German Assessment of Allied Divisions in the UK - May 31, 1944
Map 5: The Atlantic Wall in France - 1944
CHAPTER 1: THE INVASION FRONT, JUNE 6, 1944
Map 6: Routes to the D-Day Invasion Beaches
Map 7: Naval Bombardment on D-Day
Map 8: Western Task Force's Assault on D-Day
Map 9: German Defenses on the Cotentin Peninsula - June 6, 1944
Map 10: US Airborne Landings - June 6, 1944
Map 11: Utah Beach - June 6-7, 1944
Map 12: Pointe du Hoc - June 6, 1944
Map 13: Assault Landing Plan, Western Side, Omaha Beach
Map 14: German Defenses on Omaha Beach
Map 15: D-Day Operations on Omaha Beach - June 6, 1944
Map 16: The Eastern Task Force
Map 17: German Defenses on Gold Beach
Map 18: Gold Beach on D-Day
Map 19: German Defenses on Juno Beach
Map 20: The Canadians at Juno Beach
Map 21: German Defenses on Sword Beach
Map 22: British 6th Airborne Division Landings
Map 23: Amphibious Landings on Sword Beach
Map 24: The British Lodgment Area - Night, June 6, 1944
CHAPTER 2: THE BATTLE FOR FRANCE, JUNE-AUGUST 1944
Map 25: The Battle for Carentan - June 10-13, 1944
Map 26: Cutting off the Cotentin - June 10-18, 1944
Map 27: Festung Cherbourg
Map 28: The Advance on Cherbourg - June 19-21, 1944
Map 29: The Attack on Cherbourg - June 22-26, 1944
Map 30: First Allied Moves on Caen
Map 31: Villers-Bocage - June 12-14, 1944
Map 32: Planned Panzer Offensive, June 22, 1944
Map 33: Operation Epsom - June 25-30, 1944
Map 34: Railway Interdiction on the Normandy Front - June 1944
Map 35: Operation Charnwood and the Capture of Caen
Map 36: The Battle of the Hedgerows Begins - July 3-11, 1944
Map 37: German Hedgerow Defenses - July 1944
Map 38: The Battle for St-Lô - July 14-20, 1944
Map 39: Operation Goodwood - July 18, 1944
Map 40: Strategic Situation in Normandy - July 2-24, 1944
Map 41: The Operation Cobra Plan
Map 42: Operation Cobra Breakthrough - July 25-30, 1944
Map 43: Operation Bluecoat - July 30, 1944
Map 44: On the Eve of Breakout - July 31, 1944
Map 45: Race into Brittany - August 1944
Map 46: Operation Lüttich - August 7, 1944
Map 47: Operation Totalize, Phase I - August 7-8, 1944
Map 48: Operation Totalize, Phase II - August 8-11, 1944
Map 49: Operation Tractable - August 14-16, 1944
Map 50: The Strategic Situation in Normandy in Early August 1944
Map 51: The German Predicament - August 16, 1944
Map 52: The Collapse of the Falaise Pocket - August 18-19, 1944
Map 53: Closing the Falaise Pocket - August 18-21, 1944
Map 54: The US Army Advance to the Seine - August 19-24, 1944
Map 55: The Advance on Paris - August 23-24, 1944
Map 56: Operation Dragoon - August 15, 1944
Map 57: The Rhône Triangle - August 20-25, 1944
Map 58: Liberation of Marseilles - August 20-27, 1944
Map 59: The Pursuit to Lyon - August 29 to September 3, 1944
Map 60: The German Rout in France - August 1944
CHAPTER 3: THE BATTLES ALONG THE GERMAN FRONTIER, SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER 1944
Map 61: The Void: Pursuit to the German Frontier - August 26 to September 11, 1944
Map 62: Clearing the Channel Ports - September 1944
Map 63: Airborne Options - June-September 1944
Map 64: Operation Market Garden: the Plan
Map 65: German Dispositions in the Netherlands - September 16, 1944
Map 66: 101st Airborne Division Landings - September 17-18,1944
Map 67: 82nd Airborne Division Landings - September 17-18, 1944
Map 68: The Arnhem Landing Plan - September 17, 1944
Map 69: The Advance of XXX Corps on Hell's Highway - September 17-25, 1944
Map 70: The End at Arnhem Bridge - September 20-25, 1944
Map 71: The End of Market Garden - September 26, 1944
Map 72: The Strategic Debate - Autumn 1944
Map 73: Westwall Defenses in the Aachen Sector
Map 74: The First Battle of Aachen: Stolberg Corridor - September 12-29, 1944
Map 75: Aachen: the Northern Attack - October 2-8, 1944
Map 76: The Battle for Aachen - October 7-20, 1944
Map 77: The Hürtgen Forest - October-December 1944
Map 78: Operation Queen: XIX Corps - November 16 to December 9, 1944
Map 79: The Final Push: VII Corps Reaches the Roer - December 10-16, 1944
Map 80: Conflicting Plans in Lorraine - September 1944
Map 81: Third US Army along the Moselle - September 5-11, 1944
Map 82: XII Corps Bridgeheads near Nancy - September 1944
Map 83: Lorraine: the Strategic Situation - September 25, 1944
Map 84: Encirclement of Metz - November 9-19, 1944
Map 85: Operation Madison - November 8 to December 19, 1944
Map 86: 6th Army Group's Advance on the Rhine - November 14 to December 16, 1944
Map 87: Opening the Scheldt - October 6 to November 3, 1944
Map 88: Clearing the Scheldt: Operation Infatuate
Map 89: The Fall of Walcheren - November 3-8, 1944
Map 90: Red Ball Express - September 1944 to February 1945
Map 91: Autumn Frustrations - September 15 to December 15, 1944
CHAPTER 4: THE ARDENNES CAMPAIGN, DECEMBER 1944 TO JANUARY 1945 201
Map 92: The Strategic Situation - December 16, 1944
Map 93: Initial Attacks of 6.Panzer-Armee - December 16-19, 1944
Map 94: Kampfgruppe Peiper - December 20-25, 1944
Map 95: Destruction of 106th Infantry Division - December 16-19, 1944
Map 96: The Defense of St-Vith
Map 97: Attack in the Center: 5.Panzer-Armee vs. the 28th Division
Map 98: Attack in the South: 7.Armee vs. XII Corps
Map 99: Bastogne - December 19-23, 1944
Map 100: Patton's Relief of Bastogne - December 22-26, 1944
Map 101: Eliminating the Bulge - January 3-28, 1945
Map 102: Operation Nordwind - December 31, 1944
Map 103: Operation Sonnenwende - January 5-12, 1945
Map 104: The Battle of Haguenau - January 6-21, 1945
Map 105: Operation Cheerful: Strangling the Colmar Pocket - January 19 to February 9, 1945
CHAPTER 5: BATTLES FOR THE ROER AND RHINE, FEBRUARY-MARCH 1945
Map 106: Allied Plans following the Battle of the Bulge - February 1945
Map 107: West-Stellung - February 1945
Map 108: Operation Veritable - February 8, 1945
Map 109: Operation Blockbuster - February 1945
Map 110: Operation Grenade - February 23 to March 10, 1945
Map 111: Closing on the Rhine - February 8 to March 10, 1945
CHAPTER 6: ENDGAME AGAINST THE THIRD REICH, APRIL-MAY 1945
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