Eyewitness D-Day: Firsthand Accounts from the Landing at Normandy to the Liberation of Paris

by D.M. Giangreco

Book Overview

"I looked down and there were ships and ships and ships forever. I thought about how big this was and reality was beginning to come to me. This is the biggest thing that's ever happened. And now what? What really are we getting into?" --Sergeant Tom McCarthy, 82d Airborne Division The Allied assault on the beaches of Normandy in World War II is perhaps the most important offensive ever launched. And Eyewitness D-Day , by award-winning author D.M...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0760750459
• ISBN13: 9780760750452
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Union Square Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 3.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.8" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

Captures the tumultuous shifts of history from those who miraculously survived

Eyewitness D-Day: Firsthand Accounts from the Landing at Normandy to the Liberation of Paris is a coffee-table book filled cover to cover with testimonies of those who participated in the most ambitious amphibious military operation in history, and the subsequent crusade to break the Nazi hold on Europe. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white and a few color photographs, and packaged with an audio CD of selected eyewitness interviews, Eyewitness D-Day captures the tumultuous shifts of history from those who miraculously survived. In-depth explanatory sidebars for details within the photographs and other nuances that may be unfamiliar to lay readers, Eyewitness D-Day is enthusiastically recommended for military historians and casual readers alike.