Voices From D-Day - Softcover

Bastable, Jonathan

4.29

99 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0715322044 ISBN 13: 9780715322048

Publisher: David & Charles, 2005

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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. Reprint.

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About the Author:

Jonathan Bastable began his career as a feature writer for The Sunday Times Magazine, where he was awarded a Reuters prize. He is now an experienced writer, editor and journalist and regularly contributes to Conde Nast Traveller. He is currently working on two novels and lives in Brighton.

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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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