D-Day : the climactic battle of World War II, June 6, 1944
Ambrose, Stephen E.2014
Books, Manuscripts
On the basis of 1400 oral histories from the men who were there, Stephen E. Ambrose reveals that the intricate plan for the invasion of France in June 1944 had to be abandoned before the first shot was fired. The true story of D-Day, as Ambrose relates it, is about the citizen soldiers - junior officers and enlisted men - taking the initiative to act on their own to break through Hitler's Atlantic Wall when they realised that nothing was as they had been told it would be.
Main title:
D-Day : the climactic battle of World War II, June 6, 1944 / Stephen E. Ambrose.
Author:
Ambrose, Stephen E., author
Edition:
Illustrated edition.
Imprint:
London : Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Collation:
xix, 748 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 28 cm
Notes:
Previous edition: 1994.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781471136665 (hbk)9781471136672 (PDF ebook)1471136663
Dewey class:
940.5'42142940.542142940.54214940.5421940.542
Local class:
940.542940.5421940.5421428
Language:
English
BRN:
517645
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