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Detalhes do Produto
- Editora: Short Books
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- Ano: 2014
- ISBN: 9781780722153
- Número de páginas: 288
- Capa: Brochado
Sinopse
This book tells the story of the most audacious amphibious operation the world has ever seen.
June 6th 1944 was an historic day in the true sense of the word, but it was also a day where ordinary people were placed often in extraordinary situations. Lieutenant Norman Poole jumping from a bomber surrounded by 200 decoy dummy parachutists; French baker Pierre Cardron leading British paratroopers to his local church where he knows two German soldiers are hiding in the confessional; Southampton telegram boy Tom Hiett delivering his first 'death message' by midday; at the sound of Allied aircraft Werner Kortenhaus of the 21st Panzer Division running to collect his still damp washing from the French woman who's been doing his laundry; injured soldiers weeping in their beds in hospital in New York, knowing that their buddies are dying on the Normandy beaches.
Drawing on memoirs, diaries, letters home and oral history accounts, D-Day: Minute by Minute is pure chronological story, concerned less with the military strategies and more with what people were thinking and doing as D-Day unfolded.
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