American GI in Europe in World War II: D-Day: Storming Ashore

by J.E. Kaufmann and H.W. Kaufmann

Book Overview

- Covers the D-Day airborne drops and amphibious landings at Omaha Beach and Utah Beach - Includes sidebars on landing craft, the naval bombardment, engineers, medics, the Germans' defenses, and more In the spirit of Stephen Ambrose's Band of Brothers and Cornelius Ryan's The Longest Day and A Bridge Too Far, J. E. Kaufmann and H. W. Kaufmann weave together firsthand accounts of American soldiers to capture the complete experience of the individual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811704548
• ISBN13: 9780811704540
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.2" x 10.1"