Crusade in Europe

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JHU Press, Jul 2, 1997 - Biography & Autobiography - 559 pages
Limited to 1,000 copies, each numbered and signed by the photographer. A decade after his first TASCHEN book, Deux ex Machina, Ralph Gibson is back, with an extensive collection of nudes, including his best recent work as well as an interview by Eric Fischl. Strikingly contrasted and meticulously composed, Gibsons photographs pay tribute to some of the mediums greatest practitioners, such as Man Ray and Edward Weston, while venturing into uncharted waters. Says Gibson: A photographer once said that beauty in women is endless. Perhaps it was I who said it. In fact, I remember distinctly having done soand the thought persists to this day. We stare in the psychological mirror of the human body with a fascination that endures indefinitely. At least art history indicated this to be so. The Willendorf Venus is said to date from 25,000 BCthat is a old enough for me to believe in the subject. I love photographing women and could say that the form of the female body is absolute and perfect.
 

Contents

PRELUDE TO WAR
1
GLOBAL WAR
16
LIFE LINE TO AUSTRALIA
20
COMMAND POST FOR MARSHALL
31
TRANSATLANTIC SHIPPING ROUTES
44
PLATFORM FOR INVASION
49
BOMBERS OVER AXIS INDUSTRY
64
PLANNING TORCH
74
DDAY ASSAULT
255
BREAKOUT
266
THE BREAKOUT AND EXPLOITATION
273
PURSUIT AND THE BATTLE OF SUPPLY
288
ANVILDRAGOON
295
PLAN AND PERFORMANCE
309
AUTUMN FIGHTING ON GERMANYS FRONTIER
321
THE SCHELDT ESTUARY
326

INVASION OF AFRICA
95
LANDINGS IN NORTH AFRICA
102
WINTER IN ALGIERS
115
NOVEMBER RACE FOR TUNIS
117
TUNISIAN CAMPAIGN
135
THE KASSERINE COUNTERATTACK
144
SPRING OFFENSIVE IN TUNISIA
153
HUSKY
159
SICILY AND SALERNO
173
THE INVASION OF SICILY
175
THE INVASION OF ITALY
185
CAIRO CONFERENCE
193
ITALY
201
ITALIAN CAMPAIGN
205
PLANNING OVERLORD
220
GENERAL STRATEGY OF OVERLORD
227
DDAY AND LODGMENT
253
THE ARDENNES RISK
339
HITLERS LAST BID
342
THE ARDENNESMAXIMUM GERMAN PENETRATION
354
CROSSING THE RHINE
366
TO DESTROY THE GERMANS WEST OF THE RHINE
373
ASSAULT AND ENCIRCLEMENT
387
THE RHINE BARRIER BREACHED
393
OVERRUNNING GERMANY
404
MILITARY SITUATION AT GERMAN SURRENDER
419
VICTORYS AFTERMATH
427
OPERATION STUDY
448
RUSSIA
457
A Allied Order of Battle for Final Offensive
510
The German Ground Forces
516
INDEX
523
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About the author (1997)

Born in 1890 in Denison, Texas, Dwight D. Eisenhower grew up in Abilene, Kansas. He served as Supreme Commander of Allied forces during World War II and, from 1953 to 1961, as 34th president of the United States. He died in Washington, D.C., in 1969.