Sand and Steel
A New History of D-Day
The most comprehensive and authoritative history of D-Day ever published'Extraordinary' Andrew Roberts'Brilliant' Jeremy Black'Magisterial' James Holland________________6 June 1944, 4 a.m. Hundreds of boats assemble off the coast of Normandy. By nightfall, thousands of the men they carry will be dead.Through their sacrifice, the Allies will gain a foothold in Europe that will ultimately lead to the downfall of the Third Reich.This was D-Day, the most important day of the twentieth century.________________In Sand and Steel, one of Britain's leading military historians draws on a decade of archival research and thousands of interviews to offer…
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- ISBN: 978-1-84794-828-1
- EAN: 9781847948281
- Produktnummer: 28596173
- Verlag: Random House UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 1072 S.
- Masse: H24.3 cm x B16.4 cm x D6.8 cm 1'707 g
- Gewicht: 1707
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Peter Caddick-Adams is a writer and broadcaster who specialises in military history, defence and security issues. He previously lectured in Military and Security Studies at the UK Defence Academy for twenty years, and in Air Power for the Royal Air Force. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Geographical Society, he also spent thirty-five years as an officer in the UK Regular and Reserve Forces, and has extensive experience of various war zones, including the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan. He was educated at Shrewsbury School, Sandhurst and Wolverhampton University, where he gained first class honours in War Studies; he received his PhD from Cranfield University. His previous works include Monty and Rommel: Parallel Lives (2011), Monte Cassino: Ten Armies in Hell (2012), and Snow and Steel: Battle of the Bulge 1944-45 (2014).
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