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Operation Dragoon: The Allied Liberation of the South of France: 1944, by Robin Cross, Pegasus Books, New York, 2019, $27.95
While victory might have a hundred fathers, it is sometimes orphaned if won too easily. Such was the case with Operation Dragoon, a strategic success rarely detailed in histories of World War II.
Dragoon stood squarely in the face of more quixotic alternate history visions -for example, Winston Churchill's preference for landings along the Adriatic. Cross dedicates much of the first third of his book to strategic squabbling...