Longest Day, The
The D-Day Story, June 6th, 1944
6 June, 1944. 156,000 troops from 12 different countries, 11,000 aircraft, 7,000 naval vessels, 24 hours. D-Day - the beginning of the Allied invasion of Hitler's formidable 'Fortress Europe' - was the largest amphibious invasion in history. There has never been a battle like it, before or since.But beyond the statistics and over sixty years on, what is it about the events of D-Day that remain so compelling? The courage of the men who fought and died on the beaches of France? The sheer boldness of the invasion plan? Or the fact that this, Rommel's 'longest day', heralded the beginning of the end of World War II. One of the defining battles of…
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- ISBN: 978-0-85771-819-8
- EAN: 9780857718198
- Produktnummer: 23578882
- Verlag: I.B.Tauris
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 10'119 KB
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