BOOK OPERATION DRAGOON (BOX48)

 COURTESY OF GIBSONS TACTICAL TAVERN                                                                       MILITARY SURPLUS LISTING INDIVIDUALLY PICTURED

 OPERATION DRAGOON: THE ALLIED INVASION OF THE SOUTH OF FRANCE

AUTHOR: WILLIAM B. BREUER

ISBN 0-89141-307-3

COPYRIGHT 1987 BY WILLIAM B. BREUR

PUBLISHED BY PRESIDIO PRESS  NOVATO, CA

****THERE WAS NO DEVELOPMENT OF THAT PERIOD WHICH ADDED MORE DECISIVELY TO OUR ADVANTAGES OR AIDED US MORE IN ACCOMPLISHING THE FINAL AND COMPLETE DEFEAT OF GERMAN FORCES THAN DID THIS ATTACK COMING UP THE RHONE VALLEY (FROM THE RIVERERA)                                                                                                      DIRECT  QUOTE FROM GENERAL OF THE ARMY DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

STALIN....WAS ONE OF THE STRONGEST BOOSTERS OF THE INVASION OF SOUTHERN FRANCE. HE KNEW EXACTLY WHAT HE WANTED IN A POLITICAL AS WELL AS A MILITARY WAY; AND THE THING HE WANTED MOST WAS TO KEEP US OUT OF THE BALKANS, WHICH STALIN HAD STAKED OUT FOR THE RED ARMY......DRAGOON WAS A MAJOR BLUNDER.   DIRECT QUOTE FROM GENERAL MARK W. CLARK