Illustrated
Simon & Schuster
May 2014
On Sale: May 6, 2014
768 pages ISBN: 1476765863 EAN: 9781476765860 Kindle: B00GVJ16B6 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Now illustrated with an extraordinary collection of over 125 photos, Stephen E. Ambroseโs D-Day is the definitive history of World War IIโs most pivotal battle, June 6, 1944, the day that changed the course of history.
D-Day is the epic story of men at the most demanding moment of their lives, when the horrors, complexities, and triumphs of life are laid bare. Distinguished historian Stephen E. Ambrose portrays the faces of courage and heroism, fear and determinationโwhat Eisenhower called โthe fury of an aroused democracyโโthat shaped the victory of the citizen soldiers whom Hitler had disparaged.
Drawing on more than 1,400 interviews with American, British, Canadian, French, and German veterans, Ambrose reveals how the original plans for the invasion had to be abandoned, and how enlisted men and junior officers acted on their own initiative when they realized that nothing was as they were told it would be.
The action begins at midnight, June 5/6, when the first British and American airborne troops jumped into France. It ends at midnight, June 6/7. Focusing on those pivotal twenty-four hours, the book 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 German sergeant. Ambroseโs D-Day is the most honored account of one of our historyโs most important days.
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