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The World War II D-Day invasion in American history
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R. Conrad Stein |
Discusses the events surrounding the D-Day invasion of Europe by Allied Forces on June 6, 1944. |
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World War II infantrymen
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Steven Otfinoski |
"Describes the role infantryman played during World War II. Readers' choices reveal various historical details"--Provided by publisher. |
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The Dead and Those About to Die
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John C. McManus |
This book is a white-knuckle account of the 1st Infantry Division's harrowing D-Day assault on the eastern sector of Omaha Beach. Nicknamed the Big Red One, 1st Division had fought from North Africa … |
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Eye-witness D-day
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Jon E. Lewis |
Lewis fills this volume with a rich selection of participants' dairy selections, published memoirs, interviews, and contemporary articles from reporters on the ground to paint a stark and frequently … |
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D-Day
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Rick Atkinson |
Presents a young reader's adaptation of "The Guns at Last Light," tracing the Battle of Normandy and the Allied liberation of Western Europe through the end of World War II.
Adapted for young read… |
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Forgotten
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Linda Hervieux |
In the early hours of June 6, 1944, the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion, a unit of African-American soldiers, landed on the beaches of France. Their orders were to man a curtain of armed balloons mea… |
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D-Day
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Charlie Samuels |
This is a detailed account of the planning and execution of history's greatest amphibious invasion. |
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Normandy
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Olivier Wieviorka |
The Allied landings on the coast of Normandy on June 6, 1944, have assumed legendary status in the annals of World War II. But in overly romanticizing D-day, Olivier Wieviorka argues, we have lost si… |
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The Battle of Normandy, 1944
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Robin Neillands |
What happened to the Allied armies in Normandy in the months after D-Day? Why, after the initial success of the landings, did their advance stall a few miles inland? How did the Germans, deprived of … |
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The First Men In
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Ed Ruggero |
Of the nearly 15,000 Allied paratroopers dropped into France on D–14 (two weeks before D–Day), only one regiment––the 3,000 men of the 505 Parachute Infantry––had … |
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The Bedford Boys
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Alex Kershaw |
On June 6, 1944, nineteen boys from Bedford, Virginia--population 3,000--died in the first bloody minutes of D-Day when their landing craft dropped them in shallow water off Omaha Beach. They were pa… |
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The D-Day experience
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Richard Holmes,Imperial War Museum |
D-Day, the largest amphibious invasion in history, took place on 6 June 1944. The subsequent battle of Normandy involved over a million men, and helped seal the fate of The Third Reich. This is a gra… |
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Pegasus Bridge
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Stephen E. Ambrose |
In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, a small detachment of British airborne troops stormed the German defense forces and paved the way for the Allied invasion of Europe. Pegasus Bridge was the… |
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June 6, 1944
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Gerald Astor |
In ships and planes, they crossed the English Channel.On the other side Hitler's army waited.And the longest day was about to begin....In the spring of 1944, 120,000 Allied soldiers crossed the Engli… |
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Clash of arms
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R. Hart |
"Clash of Arms examines how the Western Allies learned - on the battlefield - to defeat the Nazi war machine.".
"Beginning with an investigation of the interwar neglect that left the Allied militari… |
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