Ten Days to D-Day: Citizens and Soldiers on the Eve of the Invasion
of David A.T. Stafford
Description
Ten days before the largest operation of World War II was launched, it was still one of the century's best-kept secrets -- thanks to countless ordinary people participating in one of history's most remarkable moments. David Stafford has written a riveting account of ten of those ordinary men and women -- including an American paratrooper, a German soldier, a nineteen-year-old English woman working on secret codes, a Parisian Jew in hiding, and a daring French resistance cell -- as they lived through ten very extraordinary days. Drawing on previously unpublished diaries and letters, Stafford gives readers a fresh point of entry into one of the most significant battles ever fought.Ten Days to D-Day buzzes with the pace of a novel, as Stafford moves from country to country, from character to character, including some of D-Day's leaders: Hitler, Rommel, Eisenhower, and Churchill. Stafford compellingly brings to life the final days before the invasion through the eyes of its participants, the citizens and soldiers that made history on June 6, 1944.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 416 pages
- Publisher Da Capo Press
- Publication Date May 25th 2005
- First Publication 10/29/99
- Language English
- ISBN 9780306814228
- Edition Not informed
- Category History & Politics
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