56th Infantry Brigade and D-Day An Independent Infantry Brigade and the Campaign in North West Europe 1944-1945

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Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
List of abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
In the Wings. Continental War to Home Front. 2nd Battalions Essex, Glosters and South Wales Borderers. June 1940-December 1943	p. 11
Chosen for the Second Front. Training and Organization into 56th (Independent) Infantry Brigade. 1 January-25 May 1944	p. 31
From the Sealed Camps to Sailing for Normandy. 25 May-Evening 5 June 1944	p. 53
Smashing Through the German Defences and Achieving Objectives. D-Day-Midnight 7 June 1944	p. 73
Fighting in the Bocage. Château Sully to Tilly-sur-Seulles. 8-20 June 1944	p. 93
Holding the Right Flank - Desperate Fighting in the Bocage. 21 June-8 August 1944.	p. 117
Breakthrough. Suisse Normande to the Taking of Le Havre. 9 August-14 September 1944	p. 137
No Quick Defeat of the Enemy. Le Havre to Holland. September-November 1944	p. 163
The Nijmegen Home Guard and the Taking of Arnhem. December 1944-May 1945	p. 187
Conclusion	p. 215
List of veterans contributing to this study	p. 225
Exercise Smash	p. 229
Exercise Fabius	p. 231
56th Brigade, order of beaching for D-Day	p. 233
56th Brigade reinforcement requirements	p. 235
Bibliography	p. 239
Index	p. 245
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