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MILITARY HISTORY

FORTHCOMING FORTHCOMING

D-Day Weapons of Mass

The Essential Destruction
Reference Guide The Essential

SPENCER C. TUCKER, EDITOR Reference Guide
This outstanding overview of ERIC A. CRODDY, JAMES J. WIRTZ,
D-Day makes clear its great AND JEFFREY A. LARSEN, EDITORS
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stresses the extent of the operation, the mistakes committed
on both sides, and why it and the Normandy Campaign that
followed were ultimately successful ERIC A. CRODDY is an analyst at United States Pacific Command.
JAMES J. WIRTZ, PhD, is professor and chair of the Department
of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School,
SPENCER C. TUCKER, PhD, is senior fellow in military history for Monterey, CA.
ABC-CLIO and the author or editor of more than 50 books and JEFFREY A. LARSEN, PhD, is a senior policy analyst with
encyclopedias, many of which have received major awards.
Science Applications International Corporation.

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the Centre for the Study of War, Propaganda and Society at the
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