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Title Voices from D-Day : eyewitness accounts from the Battles of Normandy / edited by Jon E. Lewis.

Edition 70th Anniverszary edition.
Publication Info. New York : Skyhorse Publishing, 2014.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1622647~S1
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 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  940.54 VOI    AVAILABLE
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Description 326 pages ; 20 cm
Summary Voices From D-Day features classic accounts by soldiers such as Rommel and Bradley, together with frontline reports by some of the worlds finest authors and war correspondents, including Ernest Hemingway and Alan Melville. Published to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Normandy landings, highlights of this unique collection include the break-out from Omaha beach as told by the GI who led it, a French housewifes story of what it was like to wake up to the invasion, German soldiers accounts of finding themselves facing the biggest seaborne invasion in history, a view from the command post by a member of Eisenhowers staff, combat reports, diaries and letters of British veterans of all forces and services, and accounts of the follow-up battle for Normandy, one of the bloodiest struggles of the war.
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy.
Added Author Lewis, Jon E., 1961- editor.
ISBN 9781628738179
1628738170
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