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D-Day Remembered Imperial War Museum

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D-Day Remembered by Imperial War Museum


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Including rare material from the Imperial War Museums archive, this graphic account of the planning and execution of the D-Day landings and campaign commemorates the 80th anniversary of this "Day of Days".

D-Day Remembered Summary

D-Day Remembered: From the Invasion to the Liberation of Paris by Imperial War Museum

80th ANNIVERSARY EDITION

Produced in collaboration with Imperial War Museums

Relive the day that changed the course of history. On 6 June 1944, D-Day marked the beginning of a campaign that involved more than a million men and helped seal the fate of Hitler's Germany.

Written by esteemed military historian Richard Holmes and including rare documents, diaries and secret memos from the archives of the Imperial War Museums, D-Day Remembered details the planning, execution and aftermath of the most momentous event of the Second World War.

About Imperial War Museum

Professor Richard Holmes was one of the UK's leading military historians. As well as being the General Editor of the Oxford Companion to Military History, he presented several documentary series for the BBC. His books included The Napoleonic Wars Experience, as well as Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front, Wellington: The Iron Duke and Red Coat. He died in 2011.

IWM (Imperial War Museums) is a leading authority on conflict and its impact, from the First World War to the present. A family of five museums, IWM illustrates and records all aspects of modern war and of the individual's experience of it, whether allied or enemy, service or civilian, military or political, social or cultural.

Table of Contents

The Planning The Leaders; German Forces & Defences Deception & Intelligence Resistance and SOE Pegasus Bridge British Airborne Assault US Airborne Assault Utah Beach Pointe du Hoc Omaha Beach Gold Beach Juno Beach Sword Beach Villers Bocage Pluto and Mulberries Operation Epsom Bocage and the Capture of Cherbourg Medics Battle for St Lo Operation Goodwood Operation Cobra Operation Luttich Allied Air Support Operations Totalize and Tractable The Falaise Pocket Crossing the Seine and the Liberation of Paris.

Additional information

NGR9781802798548
9781802798548
1802798544
D-Day Remembered: From the Invasion to the Liberation of Paris by Imperial War Museum
New
Hardback
Headline Publishing Group
2024-05-09
224
N/A
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