Voices from D-Day - Hardcover

Jonathan Bastable

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0715317903 ISBN 13: 9780715317907

Publisher: David & Charles, 2004

Synopsis

Collecting a wide variety of accounts from D-Day, the author recreates that fateful day from the perspective of politicians, clerks, factory workers, soldiers, sailors, and airmen, never losing sight of the human element while also painting a vividly rendered recreation of the most important day of World War II.

About this title

About the Author:

Jonathan Bastable is an experienced writer, editor and journalist. He was editor of Yesterday?s Britain, an illustrated history of the UK in the 20th century told from the perspective of those who lived through it. Jonathan writes regularly for Conde Nast Traveller magazine. He lives in Brighton, England.

From Booklist:

This excellent study of D-Day is clearly intended for the sixtieth-anniversary commemoration coming in June. Bastable covers the territory by means of eyewitness accounts, including those of elite combat soldiers, such as the paratroopers and rangers, and the mechanics who kept Allied air superiority as superior as it was and who, like the logisticians, have been unsung heroes of the operation. And that operation emerges in these pages as something only the World War II Anglo-American alliance could have carried out and as utterly essential for the Allied victory that undoubtedly shaped the future of civilization for the better. Roland Green
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About this edition

• Publisher: David & Charles
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0715317903
• ISBN 13: 9780715317907
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320