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War Stories of D-Day: Operation Overlord: June 6, 1944

Door James D. Brown e.a.

Categorie
Algemeen Militaria
Boeknummer
#377520-VC51
Titel
War Stories of D-Day: Operation Overlord: June 6, 1944
Auteur
Brown, James D. & Michael Green
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Minneapolis : Zenith Press
Jaar van uitgave
2009
ISBN10
0760336695
ISBN13
9780760336694
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original black boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with some photographs in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting
D-Day, June 6, 1944: it was the biggest amphibious operation in history. German Field Marshal Rommel, declared, “the enemy must be annihilated before he reaches our main battlefield,” the Allied Forces undertook a massive invasion of the German-occupied coast of Normandy, France. First, there was the aerial onslaught by British and American airborne divisions, then the landing of the American, British, and Canadian seaborne troops. Over 150,000 Allied troops took the fight to the enemy, their incursion paving the way to their ultimate victory over Nazi tyranny. This book tells the story of those who lived and fought through this historic conflict. In first-person accounts of the Normandy landings, soldiers recreate the harrowing, world-changing drama of taking the beaches of Fr... (Lees verder)ance, dropping from the sky, wading out of landing craft, fighting to survive and, in the process, keeping alight the hopes of humanity.
Pagina's
312
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 12,50

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