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Forgotten Voices of D-Day - A Powerful New History of the Normandy Landings in the Words of Those Who Were There (Paperback)
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Forgotten Voices of D-Day - A Powerful New History of the Normandy Landings in the Words of Those Who Were There (Paperback)
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A powerful history of the one of the most remarkable days in
British military history, told by those who were there.
6 June 1944: Allied forces cross the Channel and begin fighting
their way into Nazi-occupied Europe.
"Bullets just came at you like raindrops. You could hear them
whistling and passing you and hitting the ground near you but you
just kept going on." --Private William Edward Lloyd, 2nd Battalion,
East Yorkshire Regiment
This is the compelling story of the Normandy Landings told by the
paratroopers and commandos who were first on enemy territory, the
intelligence officers who planned the assault, the crewmen who
piloted the landing craft to the beaches, and the ordinary soldiers
who waded ashore under fire.
Codenamed Operation Overlord, D-Day was one of the biggest
military operations ever attempted. Planned over three years in the
greatest secrecy it involved 3.5 million soldiers, sailors and
airmen from all the Allied countries, who all shared the same
objective: to liberate Europe from the Nazi occupation. Almost four
years to the day since the last of the disordered and defeated
British Army was rescued from the beaches of Dunkirk, D-Day may
have only been the start of the long fight to Berlin, but it was
also the beginning of the end of the long and bloody conflict.
Featuring a mass of previously unpublished material, "Forgotten
Voices of D-Day" is a powerful record that tells what it was really
like to be involved on that fateful day, which finally and
decisively turned the tide of the Second World War.
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