Firsthand Accounts from the Landing at Normandy to the Liberation of Paris
Publisher - Sterling
Author - D M Giangreco
Binding - Hardback
Pages - 260
Age - Adult
Size - 27cm x 21cm

Product weight 1200g

Eyewitness D-Day tells the epic tale fo the invasion of Normandy by documenting the experiences of themen and women who were there, presenting their stories against the backdrop of World War II - era Europe. Written by award winning author D M Giangreco in collaboration with Kathryn Moore and edited by eminent military historian Norman Polmar, this volume features:

A full length compact disc of interviews with D-Day veterans created by First Person Productions on behalf of the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project

Hundreds of extensively captioned contemporary photographs including wartime pictures of the veterans themselves

A full colour foldout map of the Normandy beach-head (pages 120-123) detailing the types of landing craft and warships in the Allied invasion fleet as well as the position of sunken craft lost to mines, torpedoes and other enemy action.

Contents

Foreward

Introduction

Overture to Invasion

Countdown to Overlord

Paratroopers in the Night

The Main Act

A Dangerous Trio

Counterattacks and Consolidation

Breakout and the Race Across France

Bibliography

Index