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Forgotten Voices of D-Day: A Powerful New History of the Normandy Landings in the Words of Those Who Were There - Softcover

Bailey, Roderick

 
9780091930691: Forgotten Voices of D-Day: A Powerful New History of the Normandy Landings in the Words of Those Who Were There
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0091930693 ISBN 13: 9780091930691
Verlag: Ebury Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

6 June 1944: the day Allied forces crossed the Channel and began fighting their way into Nazi-occupied Northwest Europe. Initiated by airborne units and covered by air and naval bombardment, the Normandy landings were the most ambitious combined airborne and amphibious assault ever attempted. Their success marked the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany.

Drawing on thousands of hours of eyewitness testimony recorded by the Imperial War Museum, Forgotten Voices of D-Day tells the compelling story of this turning point in World War 2. Hearing from paratroopers and commandos, glider pilots and landing craft crewmen, airmen and naval personnel, we learn first-hand what it was like as men waited to go in, as they neared the beaches and drop zones, and as they landed and met the enemy. Accounts range from memories of the daring capture of 'Pegasus' bridge by British glider-bourn troops to recollections of brutal fighting as the assault forces stormed the beaches.

Featuring a mass of previously unpublished material, Forgotten Voices of D-Day is a powerful and important new record of a defining moment in modern history.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Roderick Bailey is a historian at the University of Oxford where he specialises in the history of medicine and the study of war and conflict. His previous books include the Sunday Times bestseller Forgotten Voices of the Secret War and, as an official SOE historian appointed by the Prime Minister, Target: Italy – The Secret War against Mussolini. Away from academia he has worked widely as an official observer of international elections in post-conflict and post-communist countries. In 2011 he deployed to Afghanistan as a British Army reservist and was awarded a Queen’s Commendation.

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Verlag
Ebury Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0091930693
ISBN 13 
9780091930691
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
416
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