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List Price: $12.99 Price: $12.97 "Slim Guide, Good but Not Comprehensive" - By Katawampas (USA)
This is a good slim guide to Normandy/D-Day Beaches, Flanders/WWI Sites, Giverny & Eastern Normandy & a Normandy Cheese Drive. It is good as an overview & helps in condensing your travel options. I have been to many of these areas and know from experience that if you are driving, buy a good Michelin map. The maps in this book are general & don't have all the roads. I don't think they intend you to use ONLY this book for navigating but more of an itinerary guide.
The information is good, especially for a first-time visitor. I would also buy a more comprehensive guide or do more searching online. I like how the book is organized & in color. It makes it easy to find information. If you have limited time (don't we all…..?) this book has culled the must-see sights.
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The Americans at Normandy: The Summer of 1944--The American War from the Normandy Beaches to Falaise- In Stock.
List Price: $30.99 Price: $27.64 You Save: $3.35 (11%) "Definitive Account of Climactic Battle" - By William K. Poole (Lake Wylie, SC USA)
This book covers the WW2 Normandy battles from just after D-Day until late August, and clearly shows how they were so crucial to the Allies ultimate victory. Through his research of numerous sources, the Author provides de- tailed accounts of the action at every level of the US military - in many cases involving individual soldiers and the squads, platoons, and companies they served in. Readers can't fail to get a sense of the chaos and horrors of the battlefield, but also insights into both the strategies on both sides and often the factors that turned the tide. Much of the information has been covered in previous books, but this book is unique in its presentation of the events in chronically and well organized order.(38) -
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List Price: $18.00 Price: $9.46 You Save: $8.54 (47%) "Book for father who was there" - By Canfield
I purchased this book for my father who was in World War ll, he is 89 years old. He is now reading this book and is enjoying it immensely. He says I could not have purchased a better one. He lived the life of these men, he knows all about it. He is in the army and has 3 purple hearts to prove his bravery.
This is a book he would recommend to any age to read and enjoy the experience with him(510) -
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"Temporary refuge" - By Harry Eagar (Maui)
In war - or in any other complicated endeavor - things can go wrong in ridiculous ways. Such was the history of the American Mulberry, or artificial harbor, that almost failed and - on the for-want-of-a-nail principle - came within a whisker of ruining the 1944 invasion of France.
There are scant histories of the Mulberries, and apparently there never will be a full history, inasmuch as some of the documents were burned, according to Alfred Stanford, a U.S. Navy officer who was deputy commander of the American Mulberry built off Omaha and Utah beaches.
His history, published in 1951, starts awkwardly but once it gets rolling turns into one of the better stories of out-of-the-way aspects of the big war, except Mulberry was only out-of-the-way in the sense of getting relatively little attention. It is mentioned in one or two pages in histories of the invasion.
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List Price: $24.99 Price: $15.01 You Save: $9.98 (40%) "Bob Capa's D-Day June 6, 1944/Omaha Beach images faithfully and artistically honored!" - By M. S. Brown (Oak Hill, Tx.)
This is a fine, modern treatment of Robert Capa's uniquely historic D-Day photos since he was the only combat photographer who landed with the first wave units on Omaha Beach. This modest sized and priced publication includes Capa's original images plus very fine graphic novel type artwork. Most of his exposed invasion rolls of film was ruined by a technician in Life Magazine's London photo lab later that day. Therefore in my opinion the artistic treatment herein is a superb approach to fulfilling how the murderous beach action may actually have appeared and been experienced by the amphibious forces landed with Capa that June morning.(6) -
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Price: $4.99 "Five Stars" - By Andrew P. Robinson (Dewitt,, NY United States)
Arrived in a timely manner in the condition stated.(2) -
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Price: $16.95 "Normandy: Omaha Beach" - By William T. Bowers (Burke, Virginia)
Having just returned from the Normandy beaches, I found that this book is essential for anyone who visits the battlefield, either by actually walking the ground, or even vicariously by reading in the comfort of your own home. The author, Tim Kilvert-Jones, provides concise, but essential, background material on the strategic setting in 1944, German defensive plans and organization, Allied invasion plans, and the Allied air and naval operations that preceded the invasion. Of particular note is the key role played in Allied planning by intelligence, terrain analysis, weather, and deception operations. The core of the book is a tour of the three main sections of Omaha Beach: Pointe du Hoc and the tactical sectors of the 29th and 1st Infantry Divisions. For each area, Kilvert-Jones has selected excellent vantage points that allow one to view the terrain. ... full review(4)