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ZIN Product Number: 10248913
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 962 pages
Edition: Unabridged Edition
Publisher: Hall, G. K. & Company
ISBN: 0783884699
Release Date: Jan 1, 1997
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 4 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
This is an account of the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944. The author argues "that the invasion represented a triumph of the old United States Army, whose officers had transformed millions of civilians into a cohesive, highly trained and motivated mass army that, backed by a united nation, won with relative ease." (Christian Science Monitor)
| | | | From The Publisher
On the basis of 1,400 oral histories from the men who were there, Eisenhower biographer and World War II historian Stephen E. Ambrose reveals for the first time anywhere 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 realized that nothing was as they had been told it would be. This is a brilliant telling of the battles of Omaha and Utah beaches, based on information only now available, from American, British, Canadian, French, and German veterans, from government and private archives, from never before utilized sources on the home front, gathered and analyzed by the author, who has made D-Day his life work. Ambrose's first interview was with General Eisenhower in 1964, his last with paratroopers from the 101st Airborne in 1993. Called the premier American narrative and military historian, Ambrose explains the most important day of the twentieth century. The action begins at midnight, June 5/6, when the first British and American airborne troops jumped into France to launch the invasion. It ends at midnight, June 6/7. Focusing on those pivotal twenty-four hours, this is the story of individuals rather than units. It moves from the level of Supreme Commander to that of a French child, from General Omar Bradley to an American paratrooper, from Field Marshal Montgomery to a British private, from Field Marshal Rommel to a German sergeant. Ambrose covers the politics of D-Day, from Churchill's resistance to the operation to Stalin's impatience and Roosevelt's concern. On the other side were Hitler's command structure, German policy, and the plot against the Fuhrer. This is the epic victory of democracy in winner-take-all combat.
| | | | Annotation
This monumental narrative provides a compelling portrait of the strategic dimesnions of the invasion that changed the course of the World War II, skillfully melding eyewitness accounts of American, British, Canadian, French, and German veterans, materials from government and private archives, and never-before-utilized sources from the homefront.
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Great detail a must have for World War II history buffs
-- A reviewer, a history buff in world war II, September 9, 2002
Also Recommended: The Longest Day and Band of Brothers
The history of our freedom
-- Kevin Quinn, May 22, 2002
Also Recommended: Band of Brothers by: Stephen Ambrose
The book that still touches me.
-- Martin Wm. Boots, June 2, 2002
An excellent read
-- Samantha, a 15-year-old from KY., March 14, 2002
Also Recommended: Anything by Stephen Ambrose. 'The Mighty Eighth' by Gerald Astor, and 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich'.
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
"Once in a while a book comes along to lift us into another time and the gripping drama of a great heroic event. This is such a book. Extraordinary."--David McCullough
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World War, 1939-1945, Campaigns, France, Normandy, Normandy (France), History - Military / War, History, Military - World War II, Military - General, France, Campaigns, World War, 1939-1945, History, Military, Normandy, Normandy (France)
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