Voices from D-Day [Hardcover]

Jonathan Bastable (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 2004

D-Day, June 6th, 1944, was the momentous turning point in World War II. More than that, it was a pivotal day in human history. On that morning, the largest armada every assembled carried 150,000 men - British, American, Canadian - across the English Channel. Those men set down on a bleak and heavily fortified stretch of the Normandy coast, where they fought to end what Churchill called ?the new dark age? of Nazi domination. Compiled from contemporary letters and diaries, ?Voices From D-Day? features first hand accounts of the Normandy landing, from both sides of the battle. Here, readers will find the voices of the great military planners, Churchill, Patton and Eisenhower, alongside tales of the battle from the ordinary soldier under intense fire, the French people watching the invasion and the German soldiers, facing the unexpected enormity of Operation Overlord.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

This excellent study of D-Day is clearly intended for the sixtieth-anniversary commemoration coming in June. Bastable covers the territory by means of eyewitness accounts, including those of elite combat soldiers, such as the paratroopers and rangers, and the mechanics who kept Allied air superiority as superior as it was and who, like the logisticians, have been unsung heroes of the operation. And that operation emerges in these pages as something only the World War II Anglo-American alliance could have carried out and as utterly essential for the Allied victory that undoubtedly shaped the future of civilization for the better. Roland Green
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About the Author

Jonathan Bastable is an experienced writer, editor and journalist. He was editor of Yesterday?s Britain, an illustrated history of the UK in the 20th century told from the perspective of those who lived through it. Jonathan writes regularly for Conde Nast Traveller magazine. He lives in Brighton, England.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: David & Charles Publishers (June 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0715317903
• ISBN-13: 978-0715317907
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,007,618 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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