Subtitled, "A Powerful New History Of The Normandy Landings In
The Words Of Those Who Were There". Draws on thousands of
hours of eyewitness testimony recorded by the Imperial War Museum,
telling the personal stories of paratroopers, commandos, glider
pilots, landing craft crewmen, airmen and naval personnel.
Bailey's previous book "Forgotten Voices Of The Secret
War", was a "Sunday Times" bestseller in hardback.
6 June 1944 is one of the most momentous days in history: the day
Allied forces crossed the Channel and began fighting their way into
Nazi-occupied Northwest Europe. Preceded by airborne units and
covered by air and naval bombardment, the Normandy landings were
the most ambitious combined airborne and amphibious assault ever
attempted. Their success marked the beginning of the end for Nazi
Germany. Drawing on thousands of hours of eyewitness testimony
recorded by the Imperial War Museum, "Forgotten Voices of
D-Day" tells the compelling story of this turning point in the
Second World War in the words of those who were there. We hear from
paratroopers and commandos, glider pilots and landing craft
crewmen, airmen and naval personnel. We learn first-hand of what it
was like as men waited to go in, as they neared the beaches and
drop zones, as they landed and met the enemy. Accounts range from
memories of the daring capture of 'Pegasus' bridge by
British glider-bourn troops to recollections of brutal fighting as
the assault forces stormed the beaches. Shedding fresh light too on
the American contribution, they include the memories of British
personnel caught up in the terrible events at Omaha Beach where
United States forces suffered over 2,000 casualties. Featuring a
mass of previously unpublished material, "Forgotten Voices of
D-Day" is a powerful and important new record of a defining
moment in modern history.
Praise for Roderick Bailey's Forgotten Voices of the Secret War "Roderick Bailey has skillfully braided their stories into a coherent narrative, and the quality of their egregious courage catches at the heart." -"Spectator"
Roderick Bailey is a historian attached to the Imperial War Museum and the author of the Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller, Forgotten Voices of the Secret War, and the critically acclaimed The Wildest Province: SOE in the Land of the Eagle. He is a graduate of Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities and a former Alistair Horne Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford.
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