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Bibliography:
Listed below are a series
of books, articles, and newsreels recommended by the author
for those desiring to
learn more about the Allied campaign for southern France...
Books that feature the Southern France Campaign:
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Adleman, Robert
H., and Colonel George Walton.
The Champaign
Campaign.
Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown, and Company, 1969. |
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Breuer, William
B.
Operation Dragoon.
Novato, California: Presidio Press, 1987. |
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Clark, Jeffrey
J., and Robert Ross Smith. Riviera to the Rhine.
Washington D.C.: Center for Military History, 1993. |
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De
Trez, Michel.
First Airborne
Task Force: Pictorial History of the Allied Paratroopers in the
Invasion of Southern France.
Belgium: D-Day Publishing, 1998. |
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Funk, Arthur L.
Hidden Ally:
The French Resistance, Special Operations, and the Landings in
Southern France, 1944.
Greenwood Press, 1992.
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Gaujac, Paul.
August 15,
1944: Dragoon – The Other Invasion of France.
Paris, France: Histoire & Collections, 2004. |
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Robichon,
Jacques.
The Second D-Day.
New York, New York: Walker and Company, 1969. |
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Staiger, Jörg.
Rückzug
durchs Rhôntal: Abwehr und Verzögerungskampf der 19. Armee im
Herbst 1944 unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Einsatzes der
11. Panzer-Division.
Neckargemünd:
Kurt Vowinckel, 1965. |
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Wilt, Alan F.
The
French Riviera Campaign of August 1944.
Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1981. |
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Books with
further details on the Southern France Campaign: |
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Esposito, Cheryl.
The 756th Tank
Battalion in the European Theatre.
Privately printed, 1999. |
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Grossjohann,
Georg.
Four Years, Five Fronts.
Reprint, New York: Presidio Press, 2005. |
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Hatlem, John C., and Kenneth E.
Hunter.
A WWII
Pictorial History: The War in the Mediterranean.
Herndon, Virginia:
Brassey’s, Inc, 1998. |
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McFarland, Robert, ed.
The History of the 15th
Infantry Regiment in World War II.
Privately printed, Early 1990s. Photocopied.
(This book is a fairly
straightforward transcription of the 15th Infantry
Regiment’s unpublished 1945 collaborative historical manuscript) |
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Messenger,
Charles.
The Second World War in the West.
London, United
Kingdom: Cassell, 1999. |
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Morison, Samuel
Eliot.
History of the United States Naval Operations in World War
II. Vol. XI, The Invasion of France and Germany 1944-1945.
1957.
Reprint, Edison, New Jersey: Castle Books, 2001. |
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Murphy, Audie.
To
Hell and Back.
Reprint. New York, New York: Henry Holt and Company LLC, 2002 |
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Polich, George B.
Cannon’s Roar.
Privately printed, 1995. |
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Pratt, Lt Col.
Sherman W.
Autobahn to
Berchtesgaden.
Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press Inc., 1992. |
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Prohme, Rupert.
History of the 30th Infantry Regiment in World War
II. Washington: Infantry Journal Press, 1947. |
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Rust, Kenn.
Twelfth Air Force Story,
Temple City,
California: Historical Aviation Album, 1975. |
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Schrodek,
Gustave W.
Die 11. Panzerdivision “Gespensterdivision” Bilddokumente
1940-1945.
Friedberg, 1984. |
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Schrodek,
Gustave W.
Ihr Glaube Galt Dem Vaterland:
Geschichte Des Panzer-Regiments 15 (11.
Panzer-Division).
Munich: Schild Verlag, 1976. |
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Shirley, John.
I Remember: Stories of a Combat Infantryman in World War II.
Privately Printed, 2003. |
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Stanton, Shelby
L.
Order of Battle U.S. Army, World War II.
Novato, California: Presidio Press, 1984. |
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Taggart, Donald
G.
The History of the Third Infantry Division in World War II.
1946. Reprint, Nashville, Tennessee: The Battery Press, 1987. |
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The
Seventh United States Army Report of Operations: France and
Germany 1944-1945.
1946.
2 vols. Reprint,
Nashville, Tennessee: The Battery Press, 1988. |
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Valentie, Isadore.
Combat Medic,
2nd Edition, Tarentum, Pennsylvania: Word Association
Publishers, 1998. |
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Whiting, Charles.
America’s Forgotten
Army: The Story of the U.S. Seventh.
Rockville Centre, New York:
Sarpedon, 1999 |
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Pamphlets and
articles on the Southern France Campaign: |
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Clarke, Jeffrey J.
Southern France.
The U.S. Army Campaigns of
World War II series CMH Pub 72-31 |
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Ganz, A. Harding.
“The 11th Panzers in
the Defense, 1944” Armor Magazine,
March-April 1994, Pages 26-37. |
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Motion
Pictures/Newsreels on the Southern France Campaign: |
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Invasion of
Riviera; Invasion of Southern France.
1944. Pathé Films newsreels
downloaded via Internet from the website: www.britishpathe.com.
(Each film is 3 to 4 minutes.) |
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Operation: Dragoon—The Allied
Invasion of the South of France.
Los Angeles, CA:
OnDeck Home Entertainment, 30 min. 1996. Videocassette. |
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U.S. Army Signal Corps and U.S. Navy movies kept
at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland:
3rd Division pushes on
Montelimar France; Invasion Southern France, Bay of Pampelonne;
Celebration of Liberation, Marseilles France; French rebuild
bridge near Avignon, France; 3rd Division push Le
Ganet; 15th Inf. Reg activities at camp; Riviera
landings; U.S. troops advance inland; Southern France missions
Twelfth Air Force; Expansion of Southern France Beachhead;
(Film reels taken in August 1944 and vary in
length from a few minutes to 12 minutes.)
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