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D-Day : the unheard tapes : powerful eye-witness accounts of The Battle of Normandy 1944 / Geraint Jones.
By: Jones, Geraint.
Publisher: London : Macmillan, 2024Description: 352 pages ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781035049639 (hbk.) :; 1035049635 (hbk.) :.Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy -- Personal narratives | Warfare and Defence | Warfare and Defence | United Kingdom, Great Britain | France | Library, archive & information management | European history | HistoryDDC classification: 940.5421420922 Summary: D-Day was bloody, chaotic and frequently terrifying. Its outcome was far from certain. And at its epicentre were tens of thousands of young men, many seeing their first active service. It was a single day that changed millions of lives. A critical turning point of the Second World War. Using audio interviews with British, American, Canadian and German veterans, as well as French civilians, this immersive new oral history describes what it was actually like to take part in the landings on 6 June 1944 and the weeks of ferocious fighting in Normandy that followed.| Item type | Home library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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| Adult book | Haydock Library Adult Non-Fiction | 940.542 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Ordered | ||||
| Adult book | Newton-le-Willows Library Adult Non-Fiction | 940.542 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Ordered |
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D-Day was bloody, chaotic and frequently terrifying. Its outcome was far from certain. And at its epicentre were tens of thousands of young men, many seeing their first active service. It was a single day that changed millions of lives. A critical turning point of the Second World War. Using audio interviews with British, American, Canadian and German veterans, as well as French civilians, this immersive new oral history describes what it was actually like to take part in the landings on 6 June 1944 and the weeks of ferocious fighting in Normandy that followed.