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D Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II

By Stephen E. Ambrose

Book information

Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Year
1995
ISBN
068480137X, 9780684801377
Open Library ID
OL7720891M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
561 kB (574556 bytes)
Edition
1ST
Pages
\0
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Stephen E. Ambrose draws from more than 1,400 interviews with American, British, Canadian, French, and German veterans to create the preeminent chronicle of the most important day in the twentieth century. Ambrose reveals how the original plans for the invasion were abandoned, and how ordinary soldiers and officers acted on their own initiative. D-Day is above all the epic story of men at the most demanding moment of their existence, when the horrors, complexities, and triumphs of life are laid bare. Ambrose portrays the faces of courage and heroism, fear and determination -- what Eisenhower called "the fury of an aroused democracy" -- that shaped the victory of the citizen soldiers whom Hitler had disparaged.

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