D-Day: The Battle for Normandy [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Beevor, Antony

Published by Viking / Penguin Group, New York, 2009

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Fine condition white boards with a black spine and silver spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Antony Beevor; Author Dedication; List of Illustrations and Maps; Glossary; Acknowledgments; Notes; Select Bibliography; and Index. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates, various maps interspersed throughout the volume, and map illustrated front and rear endpapers. . "The world's bestselling military historian on the most famous invasion in military history. D-Day: The Battle for Normandy is the first major account in more than twenty years to cover the invasion from June 6, 1944, up to the liberation of Paris on August 25. It is the first book to describe not only the experiences of the American, British, Canadian and German soldiers, but also the terrible suffering of the French caught up in the figthting. More French civilians were killed by Allied bombing and shelling than British civilians by the Lufwaffe. The Allied fleet was by far the largest amphibious assault ever attempted, and what followed was a battle as savage as anything seen on the Eastern Front. Casualties mounted on both sides, as did the tensions between the principal commanders. Even the joys of liberation had their darker side. The war in northern France marked not just a generation but the whole of the postwar world, profoundly influencing relations between America and Europe. Beevor draws upon his research in more than thrity archives in six countries, going back to original accounts, interviews conducted by combat historians just after the action and many diaries and letters donated to museums and archives in recent years. D-Day: The Battle for Normandy will surely be hailed as the consummate account of the Normandy invasion and the ferocious offensive that led to the liberation of Paris." - from the inner front jacket flap. "This is as powerful and authoritative an account of the battle for Normandy as we are likely to get in this generation. Nobody knows better than Beevor how to translate the dry stuff of military history into human drama of the most vivid and moving kind. His book offers a thousand vignettes of drama, terror, cruelty, compassion, courage and cowardice. He is especially good in describing the sufferings of civilians on the battlefield, whose plight is often ignored." - Max Hastings, The Sunday Times (London). "Beevor tells it all with the soldier's eye for what matters on the ground as much as with the historian's for the broader understanding of events." - Allan Mallinson, The Times (Book of the Week). "A quite outstanding book .a truly outstanding historian of war." - Professor Sir Michael Howard, Standpoint. Seller Inventory # 006124

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Title: D-Day: The Battle for Normandy [FIRST ...

Publisher: Viking / Penguin Group, New York

Publication Date: 2009

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: 1st Edition