Скачать или смотреть History Happy Hour Episode 79: The Battle for Brest

This Week on History Happy Hour: After the successful D-Day landings, people looked forward to the rapid liberation of occupied Europe. General Dwight D. Eisenhower knew, however, that the liberation would never succeed without seizing a port that would accept the ships bringing the estimated 26,000 tons of supplies the allied armies consumed every day. One such port was Brest, defended by some 40,000 Germans soldiers determined to deny Eisenhower this vital prize. In August 1944, the war-weary GIs of the VIII Corps were given the task of prying the Germans out. Host Historians Chris Andeson and Rick Beyer discuss this vital, but forgotten, battle of World War 2 with Joe Balkoski, the author of several seminal works of history on the Normandy Campaign, including "From Beachhead to Brittany: The 29th Infantry Division at Brest" Sunday at 4PM ET on History Happy Hour, the spot where history is always on tap.