The definitive guide to the U.S. Homeland Security Department, updated to address important changes in an entity whose influence is rapidly expanding into new areas--and affecting more people than ever[...]
After storming the beaches on D-Day, June 6, 1944, the Allied invasion of France bogged down in seven weeks of gruelling attrition in Normandy. On 25 July US divisions under Gen. Omar Bradley launched Operation Cobra, an attempt to break out of the hedgerows and begin a war of movement across France[...]