Presents accounts of the World War II invasion of Normandy.
"The best sort of popular military history.
Lieutenant Colonel Dudley Clarke was the head of 'A Force', a highly successful deception unit based in Cairo, and one of the architects of Bodyguard. He was a film buff with a flair for the dramatic. Indeed, Clarke's taste for dressing ...
This book--which presents collated photographs, personal accounts, and testimonies from all sides with full-page illustrations dramatizing individual roles--brings a key moment in history to life for young readers hearing about the event ...
Many children of the next generation are making efforts to find out what happened to their fathers and uncles in World War II. This story is a classic example of the joy and heartbreak that can result from the success of such a search.
D-Day was a major turning point in World War II and hailed as one of the greatest military attacks of all time.
... German Response to D-Day http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-german-response-to-d-day Library of Congress: Veterans History Project, D-Day 70th Anniversary https://www.loc.gov/vets/stories/ex-war-dday-2014.html Minesweeping Operations ...
Edited by H. Bradford Westerfield . New Haven , Conn .: Yale University Press , 1995 . Jones , Benjamin F. “ Freeing France : The Allies , the Resistance , and the Jedburghs . ” Master's thesis , University of Kansas , 2008 .
VANGUARD is the untold story of this work, the intelligence machine and covertreconnaissance missions that went into the D-Day planning, such as the signalsintelligence intercepts, the agent running operations orchestrated by the 15th ...
Read the true stories of some brave soldiers, sailors, and airmen who risked their lives on D-Day, June 6, 1944, including glider pilot Pete Buckley, Army medic "Woody" Woodson, and First Sergeant Leonard "Bud" Lomell and Staff Sergeant ...
This installment in the New York Times bestselling I Survived series from Lauren Tarshis shines a spotlight on the Normandy landings, just in time for the 75th anniversary of D-Day!