Voices of Valor: D-Day, June 6, 1944 (Includes 2 Audio CD's) - Hardcover

Douglas G. Brinkley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0821228897 ISBN 13: 9780821228890

Publisher: Bulfinch Press/Time Warner Group, 2004

Synopsis

A compilation of firsthand accounts of the Normandy invasion presents forty oral histories that recount the events of D-Day from the perspectives of the veterans themselves, accompanied by a selection of interviews on CD.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Voices of Valor is an intimate and lasting tribute to the soldiers who fought in Normandy, featuring 40 interviews drawn from the archival holdings of the Eisenhower Center Oral history Project, the largest collection of oral histories of D-Day. Within the book are two hour-long audio CD's containing the oral testimonies of veterans who were at Normandy.

About the Author:

Douglas Brinkley is a professor of history at the University of New Orleans and is director of its Dwight D. Eisenhower Center for American Studies. Brinkley has authored three New York Times Notable Books of the Year and has written and edited several popular histories. Most recently, Brinkley wrote Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress (Viking, 2003).

Ronald J. Drez is a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War. He now serves as a lecturer, historian, and research associate at the Eisenhower Center, where he has made it his life's work to preserve the voices of men who fought in World War II. He is the editor of Voices of D-Day (Louisiana State University Press, 1994) and Twenty-Five Yards of War: The Extraordinary Courage of Ordinary Men in World War II (Hyperion, 2001).

About this edition

• Publisher: Bulfinch Press/Time Warner Group
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0821228897
• ISBN 13: 9780821228890
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 194