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D-Day - The Soldiers' Story (Hardcover)
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D-Day - The Soldiers' Story (Hardcover)
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'Vivid, graphic and moving' Mail on Sunday Book of the Year 'It has
a wonderful immediacy and vitality - living history in every sense'
Anthony Horowitz 'Fantastic' Dan Snow 'Compellingly authentic,
revelatory and beautifully written. A gripping tour de force'
Damien Lewis 'Stirring and unsettling in equal measure, this is
history writing at its most powerful' Evening Standard Almost
seventy-five years have passed since D-Day, the day of the greatest
seaborne invasion in history. The outcome of the Second World War
hung in the balance on that chill June morning. If Allied forces
succeeded in gaining a foothold in northern France, the road to
victory would be open. But if the Allies could be driven back into
the sea, the invasion would be stalled for years, perhaps forever.
An epic battle that involved 156,000 men, 7,000 ships and 20,000
armoured vehicles, the desperate struggle that unfolded on 6 June
1944 was, above all, a story of individual heroics - of men who
were driven to keep fighting until the German defences were smashed
and the precarious beachheads secured. Their authentic human story
- Allied, German, French - has never fully been told. Giles
Milton's bold new history narrates the day's events through the
tales of survivors from all sides: the teenage Allied conscript,
the crack German defender, the French resistance fighter. From the
military architects at Supreme Headquarters to the young schoolboy
in the Wehrmacht's bunkers, D-Day: The Soldiers' Story lays bare
the absolute terror of those trapped in the frontline of Operation
Overlord. It also gives voice to those hitherto unheard - the
French butcher's daughter, the Panzer Commander's wife, the
chauffeur to the General Staff. This vast canvas of human bravado
reveals 'the longest day' as never before - less as a masterpiece
of strategic planning than a day on which thousands of scared young
men found themselves staring death in the face. It is drawn in its
entirety from the raw, unvarnished experiences of those who were
there.
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