Eyewitness D-Day: Firsthand Accounts from the Landing at Normandy to the Liberation of Paris [Hardcover]

D.M. Giangreco (Author), Kathryn Moore (Author), Norman Polmar (Editor)

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Publication Date: May 11, 2004

"I looked down and there were ships and ships and ships forever. I thought about how big this was and reality was beginning to come to me. This is the biggest thing that's ever happened. And now what? What really are we getting into?"
--Sergeant Tom McCarthy, 82d Airborne Division

The Allied assault on the beaches of Normandy in World War II is perhaps the most important offensive ever launched. And Eyewitness D-Day, by award-winning author D.M. Giangreco in conjunction with Kathryn Moore, and edited and with a foreword by eminent military historian Norman Polmar, is the most personal portrayal of that event ever written. Featuring interviews with more than 50 survivors, it presents the harrowing inside story of June 6th, 1944, through the eyes of the courageous men and women who actually witnessed the fighting. Hundreds of contemporary photos, including wartime pictures of the veterans, and a detailed foldout map of the Normandy beaches, create a visually impressive record of the day. To bring the full force of the intimate recollections home, the volume comes with a full-length compact disc of interviews produced by Emmy Award-winning historical documentarians Rob Lihani and Rob Kirk--so you can listen directly to the dramatic accounts of the Allied soldiers, sailors, airmen, and medical personnel themselves.

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About the Author

Award-winning author D.M. Giangreco is an editor for the U.S Army's professional journal, Military Review, and the author of numerous articles and books, including Dear Harry, War in Korea and Delta: America's Elite Counterterrorist Force.

Kathryn Moore is the co-author, with D.M. Ciangreco, of Dear Harry Truman’s Mailroom, 1945-1953: TheTruman Administration Through Correspondence with "Everyday Amareicans", and has written articles for American Heritage, American History, and numerous daily newspapers, including the Washington Times, Kansas City Star, and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Moore teaches American history in Lee's Summit, Missouri. She is currently working on First Lady of Monticello, a biography of Martha Jefferson.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 260 pages
• Publisher: Sterling (May 11, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0760750459
• ISBN-13: 978-0760750452
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.5 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,149,844 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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D. M. Giangreco, served as an editor at Military Review, US Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, for 20 years. Giangreco has lectured widely on national security matters. An award-winning author of 12 books on military and sociopolitical subjects, he has also written extensively for various national and international publications and news agencies. Giangreco was awarded the Society for Military History's 1998 Moncado Prize for his article "Casualty Projections for the US Invasions of Japan, 1945-1946: Planning and Policy Implications." Giangreco also won the Gerard Gilbert Award (1988 France and Colonies Philatelic Society) for his book Roosevelt, de Gaulle, and the Posts, and his article "The Truth About Kamikazes," was the principal nomination of US Naval Institute, Annapolis, for the Association of Naval Aviation's award for Best Article of 1997 on Naval Aviation. Giangreco's work has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Russian (pirated), Japanese, and Chinese. His most recent books are, Dear Harry on the correspondence of "Everyday Americans" with the Truman White House (2000), Artillery in Korea: Massing Fires and Reinventing the Wheel (2003), the Eyewitness series for Barnes & Noble Books -- Eyewitness D-Day (2004), Eyewitness Vietnam (2006), Eyewitness Pacific Theater (2008), and most recently, Hell to Pay (2009), and The Soldier from Independence (2009).

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5.0 out of 5 stars Captures the tumultuous shifts of history from those who miraculously survived, September 11, 2005

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This review is from: Eyewitness D-Day: Firsthand Accounts from the Landing at Normandy to the Liberation of Paris (Hardcover)

Eyewitness D-Day: Firsthand Accounts from the Landing at Normandy to the Liberation of Paris is a coffee-table book filled cover to cover with testimonies of those who participated in the most ambitious amphibious military operation in history, and the subsequent crusade to break the Nazi hold on Europe. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white and a few color photographs, and packaged with an audio CD of selected eyewitness interviews, Eyewitness D-Day captures the tumultuous shifts of history from those who miraculously survived. In-depth explanatory sidebars for details within the photographs and other nuances that may be unfamiliar to lay readers, Eyewitness D-Day is enthusiastically recommended for military historians and casual readers alike.

5.0 out of 5 stars DDay: Eyewitness to History, August 6, 2010

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This review is from: Eyewitness D-Day: Firsthand Accounts from the Landing at Normandy to the Liberation of Paris (Hardcover)

Here is why this book is unique: this is the first book on D-Day that I've read that has in-depth analysis of famous photographs, such as the Robert Capa Omaha Beach series....they tell you what you are seeing(the weapons and equipment)in the grainy, sometimes out-of-focus images. They must have hired someone with experience in photo/analysis, and that analysis is very interesting in the images taken on this day.

I highly recommend this book.