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

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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.

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.