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Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy

By Max Hastings

Book information

Publisher
Vintage
Year
2006
ISBN
030727571X, 9780307275714
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
4 MB (4423092 bytes)
Pages
400\0
Time added
2013-01-29 10:16:19

Description

On June 6, 1944, American and British troops staged the greatest amphibious landing in history to begin Operation Overlord, the battle to liberate Europe from the scourge of the Third Reich. With gut-wrenching realism and immediacy, Hastings reveals the terrible human cost that this battle exacted. Moving beyond just the storming of Omaha beach and D-Day, he explores the Allies’ push inward, with many British and American infantry units suffering near 100 percent casualties during the course of that awful summer. Far from a gauzy romanticized remembrance, Hastings details a grueling ten week battle to overpower the superbly trained, geographically entrenched German Wehrmacht. Uncompromising and powerful in its depiction of wartime, this is the definitive book on D-Day and the Battle of Normandy.

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