A Traveller's Guide to D-Day and the Battle for Normandy
eBook - ePub

A Traveller's Guide to D-Day and the Battle for Normandy

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

A Traveller's Guide to D-Day and the Battle for Normandy

About this book

A Traveller's Guide to D-Day and the Battle for Normandy covers the period from June to August 1944 when the Allies stormed ashore, fought their way through the bocage country of Normandy, and eventually broke out through the Avranches gap. This title gives comprehensive information about: ‱ Major battles and battlefields ‱ Memorials, sites, cemeteries, and statues ‱ How to get there; what to see ‱ Contemporary eyewitness accounts ‱ Then-and-now photographs and maps The guide helps us understand what it was like to have endured the ordeal of combat. Through their own words, we learn the feelings of those young men and women of many nationalities who fought and died. What were their private thoughts and fears? Their personal memories? Contemporary eyewitness accounts are woven into the fabric of this book, which has immediacy and vividness that marks a new departure in guidebooks.

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Information

Publisher
Interlink Books
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9781566565554
eBook ISBN
9781623710576
Topic
Personal Development
Subtopic
Travel

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Introduction
  4. 1 THE FLIGHT OF PEGASUS
  5. 2 THE “ALL AMERICANS” AND THE “SCREAMING EAGLES” DESCEND
  6. 3 UTAH BEACH TO CHERBOURG
  7. 4 OMAHA BEACH TO COBRA
  8. 5 SWORD BEACH TO CAEN
  9. 6 GOLD BEACH TO BLUECOAT
  10. 7 JUNO BEACH TO FALAISE

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