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Reich, there would have been no cross-Channel operation that year. It would have been sacrificed in favor of ... various desultory and haphazard operations...
Tensely, the assembled Allied command looked to Ike for decision. In such weather, airborne and amphibious landings could be disastrous; the storm, resuming, might isolate the leading elements cross-Channel. On the other hand, a fortnight of delay would demoralize 2,000,000 pent-up troops, tangle intricate plans, and perhaps tip off the Germans. The conference lapsed into silence while Ike briefly pondered the dangers. Then he looked up, his face brightening. "Well," he said...
Blons, a quiet village in Austria's picturesque Great Walser Valley, was only one of many corners of Europe caught in the backlash of a deceptively mild winter that had suddenly turned vicious. Cross-Channel shipping was brought to a dead stop for two days as winds, roaring in from the Atlantic, whipped the seas into a fury. Far to the south in Italy, gondolas lay at their moorings in Venice under coverlets of snow. Even in Algeria, the snowplows were busy on the streets of Constantine...
Army's own specialists in strategy and logistics, some of the already published volumes are dishwater-dull and studded with enough technical details to paralyze the general reader. A few, e.g., Cross-Channel Attack, Three Battles: Arnaville, Altuzzo, and Schmidt, and The Fall of the Philippines, capture the mud and courage of battle with tense honesty...
...critical of some commanders, did little more than add details to the account his wartime boss, Ike Eisenhower, had told three years before. The Army's own official history, United States Army in World War II (seven volumes finished of go-odd projected), did a workmanlike job in Cross-Channel Attack. For anyone who was in on the show, the pictures alone made it a book...