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A Traveller's Guide to D-Day and the Battle for Normandy Rev Edition
Contributor(s): Shilleto, Carl (Author), Tolhurst, Mike (Author)
ISBN: 1566565553     ISBN-13: 9781566565554
Publisher: Interlink Books
OUR PRICE:   $13.46  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: July 2014
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Annotation: This guidebook gives comprehensive information about:
- Major battles and battlefields
- Memorials, sites, cemeteries, and statues
- How to get there; what to see
- Contemporary eyewitness accounts
- Then-and-now photographs and maps
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Travel | Europe - France
- Travel | Museums, Tours, Points Of Interest
- Travel | Special Interest - General
Dewey: 940.542
Physical Information: 0.47" H x 5.22" W x 8.02" (0.55 lbs) 192 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1940's
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:

A Traveller's Guide to D-Day and the Battle for Normandy covers the period from June to August 1944 when the Allies stormed ashore, fought their way through the bocage country of Normandy, and eventually broke out through the Avranches gap.

This title gives comprehensive information about:
- Major battles and battlefields - Memorials, sites, cemeteries, and statues - How to get there; what to see - Contemporary eyewitness accounts - Then-and-now photographs and maps

The guide helps us understand what it was like to have endured the ordeal of combat. Through their own words, we learn the feelings of those young men and women of many nationalities who fought and died. What were their private thoughts and fears? Their personal memories? Contemporary eyewitness accounts are woven into the fabric of this book, which has immediacy and vividness that marks a new departure in guidebooks.