11 page D-Day preview article & illustrative maps—Kautzky—Harrison—March 1944

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The Year of Invasion by Charles J.V. Murphy [11 page D-Day preview article dated March 1944]


Fortune, March 1944. A complete 11-page D-Day preview article, opening with Richard Edes Harrison’s Europe/Atlantic Wall map and FDR’s “inevitable triumph” quotation, followed by Charles J. V. Murphy’s “The Year of Invasion” and the illustrated feature “Invasion Tactics: A D-Day View of What an Invader Faces and How He Plans to Win.” Published three months before Normandy, the group captures the moment when Allied victory was widely expected but commanders still warned of grave losses. The text explains the strategic and tactical questions behind the choice of landing area: beaches, ports, tides, mines, bluffs, canals, roads, reserves, air cover, bombardment, landing craft, armour, supplies and German counter-attack. Schematic maps and diagrams, including hypothetical flat, sandy-bluff and rocky-coast sectors, provide a striking contemporary visualisation of the coming cross-Channel assault. A remarkably detailed pre-D-Day explanation of what the Allies expected to face: not a simple landing, but a vast, timed, combined operation against a fortified continent.

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Size 33 x 52 cm | 13.0 x 20.5 inches

Date Published: March 1944

Type: 11 page vintage magazine article with illustrative colour maps

Author: Harrison, Richard Edes & Kautzky, Ted

Maps by Richard Edes Harrison & Ted Kautzky

Publication: Fortune Magazine

Condition: Fair |

Fair: The pages shown are printed on both/opposite sides of the same sheets. The double page map, originally printed on two separate sheets, has been professionally joined to create a single double page map. The size shown is for the double page map. This map was originally printed as two separate pages which have been professionally joined to form a single sheet. Please note any other blemishes on the scan prior to purchasing this picture. Please contact us if you would like to arrange to view this map. There is text and/or images printed on the reverse side

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