ISBN: 9780316724777

D-Day, 6th June 1944, was the climactic battle of the Second World War. Allied triumph was anything but inevitable - there was everything to play for and everything to lose. The story of … Mehr…

D-Day, 6th June 1944, was the climactic battle of the Second World War. Allied triumph was anything but inevitable - there was everything to play for and everything to lose. The story of the actual landings has been told and re-told many times, but no one has actually revealed the part that fate, human error, political infighting, deception and double agents played in the crucial ten days before the landings. David Stafford's compelling narrative, climaxing on the eve of D-Day, gives a day-by-day account of the untold human story behind this momentous event from both the Allied and Nazi perspectives. Stafford focuses on twelve very different human narratives - not only those of Hitler, Eisenhower, Montgomery, Churchill and Rommel, but of an American paratrooper; a Canadian infantryman; a French Jew in hiding, awaiting Liberation but helpless to do anything; and SOE agents fighting to keep their identity secret. TEN DAYS TO D-DAY recounts the entirety of events in the countdown that could have taken a fatefully different direction so many times along the way, revealing how narrow the margin was between victory and defeat. David Stafford, a historian tenured at the University of Edinburgh, is a critically acclaimed chronicler of World War II and is the author of CHURCHILL AND SECRET SERVICE and ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL. Media > Book, [PU: Little, Brown]<

2003, ISBN: 0316724777

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[EAN: 9780316724777], [SC: 8.74], [PU: London: Little, Brown], WORLD WAR CAMPAIGNS, FRANCE NORMANDY, SECOND WAR, MILITARY OPERATIONS, BRITISH HISTORY BATTLES EUROPE, FIRST EDITION BOOKS, … Mehr…

[EAN: 9780316724777], [SC: 8.74], [PU: London: Little, Brown], WORLD WAR CAMPAIGNS, FRANCE NORMANDY, SECOND WAR, MILITARY OPERATIONS, BRITISH HISTORY BATTLES EUROPE, FIRST EDITION BOOKS, BOOKS WRITTEN BY DAVID STAFFORD, 0316724777 NOISBN, Jacket, First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (navy blue boards with gilt titling to spine); Physically 9½" x 6¼" (1.1 kg); (xv) 366pp; Index; Bibliography; Contains: Black & White Photographs; Maps; || The book is in stock and ships from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, nearly in Bath, from a long-time book seller - guaranteed by my reputation and the UK Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying this particular book means my Jack Russells get their supper! || Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper very slightly rubbed at the edges. Pages lightly age-tanned, more heavily so at the margins., Books<

2003, ISBN: 9780316724777

(Subject: World War II - General) The author describes the countdown to the Normandy Landings from the perspectives of Churchill and Eisenhower, and those who made it possible. The narrat… Mehr…

(Subject: World War II - General) The author describes the countdown to the Normandy Landings from the perspectives of Churchill and Eisenhower, and those who made it possible. The narrative switches between countries following the roles of the English WREN working in signals, the French resistance worker and his network, the Norwegian imprisoned in a gestapo cell, the American paratrooper and the German soldier on the french coast amongst many others. (Published: 2003) (Publisher: Little Brown & Co) (ISBN: 0316724777) (Pagination: 366pp ills) (Condition: vg in dw. Browning on edges.) UL-XXXXXX, 0<