D-Day Illustrated Edition: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (870 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1476765863 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 768 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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“D-Day is mostly about people, but goes even further in evoking the horror, the endurance, the daring and indeed, the human failings at Omaha Beach Outstanding.” (The New York Times Book Review)“Packed with drama and information, never losing sight of the horrors of combat, Ambrose's D-Day is the best book yet on what many historians consider to be the most important day of the twentieth century.” (San Francisco Chronicle)“Historians and public alike should be profoundly grateful to Ambrosefor assembling this comprehensive and permanent record that will be forever a resource for remembering Normandy.” (Chicago Tribune)“Ambrose's account of the D-Day fighting on the Normandy beaches and bluffs is unsurpassed for detail, emotion and suspense.” (Publishers Weekly)
"Amazing collection of individual stories and personal perspectives" according to P. Liu. This book is essentially a collection of many short stories based on individual interviews. The individuals range from generals of the very top in Allies and Axis, to middle leaders in the action, and all the way to privates on the ground on both sides. It is an amazing telling of details about D-Day from its planning, preparation to execution on land, at sea, under water, and in the air. You get to read about very personal perspectives that are usually invisib. but there is plenty of good information on the other four beaches as well as I first read this book 20 years ago when it first came out. It gripped me to the core. I would read 100 pages a day and not want to put it down. It gripped me the same now as it did then. This is an amazingly detailed view of the Allied buildup, training, crossing, and landing on the Normandy beaches. The detail of the Omaha Beach landings is the most prevalent part of the book, told from the perspective of the grunts who did the fighting. This is definitely fo. Anchored by many personal anecdotes D. Olson I've read several of Mr. Ambrose's books and they do what popular history needs to do in the best way possible. Without being didactic or overly academic and detailed, Mr. Ambrose conveys both the strategic and tactical objectives sought on D-Day, peppered throughout with excerpts from oral histories of those who were there to keep the reader involved on several levels.As a war history buff, I bounce between scholarly works and popular takes on any given subjec
Dr. Ambrose was a retired Boyd Professor of History at the University of New Orleans and a contributing editor for the Quarterly Journal of Military History. Stephen E. Among his New York Times bestsellers are Nothing Like It in the World, Citizen Soldiers, Band of Brothers, D-Day - June 6, 1944, and Undaunted Courage. Ambrose was a renowned historian and acclaimed author of more than thirty books.
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. Now illustrated with an extraordinary collection of over 125 photos, Stephen E. Distinguished historian Stephen E. Ambrose portrays the faces of courage and heroism, fear and determination—what Eisenhower called “the fury of an aroused democracy”—that 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. Ambrose’s D-Day is the most honored account of one of our history’s most important days.. Ambrose’s D-Day is the definitive history of World War II’s 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