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Smart Travels With Rudy Maxa volume 11
Language
English
Description
From a dramatic, historic coast to rural pastures, this sweet section of France abounds with apple orchards, enchanting villages, stunning abbeys and sparkling seaports. We base in the lovely seaside town Honfleur. At Giverny, and in the museums in Rouen and Honfleur, we discover the birth of Impressionism.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Untold and lost history. A true story of the American Pathfinders, the volunteer paratroopers whose deadly mission was to land 30 minutes before the Normandy invasion, locate and mark strategic "drop zones" and set up the top-secret navigation equipment needed to guide the main airborne assault on D-Day.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
On June 6, 1944, just after midnight, the first paratroopers landed on the Cherbourg Peninsula in Normandy. It marked the beginning of D-Day, the largest and most complex military operation in history. In a two-part series, Dan Snow examines how two years of meticulous planning, espionage, and the analysis of millions of three dimensional aerial reconnaissance photographs shaped that day. D-Day is also a powerful and compelling story of heroism, self-sacrifice...
Language
English
Description
For viewers seeking a cultural immersion into the latter days of World War II, D-DAY REMEMBERED features many film artifacts from the period. D-DAY REMEMBERED emulates the moviegoing experience of the time by featuring vintage Warner Bros. cartoons and newsreels as well as rare USO performances by celebrities like Bob Hope, The Andrew Sisters, Martha Raye, Carol Landis and others.
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
For viewers seeking a cultural immersion into the latter days of World War II, D-Day Remembered features many film artifacts from the period. The highlight is the Academy Award winning documentary The True Glory, directed by playwright and screenwriter Garson Kanin and renowned British filmmaker Carol Reed. The True Glory features newsreel and battlefield footage shot by the soldiers on the front line itself. Also included is the first episode of...
8) Overlord
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
With only hours until D-Day, a small team of American paratroopers drops into Nazi-occupied France to carry out a mission that is crucial to the invasion's success. These outnumbered G.I.s come face-to-face with enemies unlike any the world has ever seen.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
It commemorates the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landing by bringing together American D-Day veterans to share their experiences from that fateful day, with their testimony yielding long-buried and often painful, vivid memories. They recount their transformations from boys to men, reveal their uneasiness with the term 'hero,' and grapple with why they survived when so many others did not.
10) Gemma Bovery
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English
Formats
Description
Having moved to a rustic farm with her older husband, Gemma soon tires of their 1simpler2 life and finds distraction in a torrid affair with a handsome young aristocrat. Meanwhile, Martin, a local baker and lover of literature, becomes besotted with Gemma, but also fears she may suffer the same fate as the heroine in his favorite novel.
Language
English
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Description
"Don McCarthy was twenty years old on D-Day, when his infantry division landed on Omaha Beach. Don and the other veterans who survived D-Day will someday soon have passed into memory and legend. This realization inspired 20-year-old filmmaker Charlotte Juergens to join Don and seven other D-Day vets on a journey to France, a commemorative pilgrimage to Omaha Beach for the 70th anniversary of the invasion. The vets come to see Charlotte as a granddaughter,...
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
We must never forget the lessons learned on D-Day, June 6, 1944. On that fatal day, the cost of freedom was born out. We must always remember the thousands who sacrificed life and limb to free Europe en route to defeating the Nazis and eliminating the scourge of fascism from the planet. For the 75th anniversary of this momentous occasion, celebrated producer Ted Fitzgerald was there to film celebrations, reenactments, heroics, and testimonials of...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
On June 6, 1944, the Allies launched the biggest armada in history to invade the Normandy beaches and liberate Europe from the Nazis. Now, NOVA has exclusive access to the first complete survey of the seabed bordering the legendary beachheads. D-Day₂s Sunken Secrets unfolds an account of the tumultuous events and reveals how the Allies₂ intricate planning and advanced technology was vital to the ambitious and risky military operation.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Some people called it a suicide, but for the Rangers of the Second Battalion, that's another word for mission. When an elite group of American soldiers are ordered to take out a series of German machine gun nests, they find themselves blindly venturing into hostile territory. Outnumbered and outgunned they must risk life and limb as they cross treacherous terrain, never knowing where the enemy might be hiding.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
An unflinching documentary that tells the story of the historic battle through the dramatic recollections of those caught up in the action. The series gives a 360-degree view of the invasion, from a British sailor who laid underwater charges that would blow up German defenses, to Canadians, Americans, French resistance fighters, and German defenders. Moving interviews are combined with newly discovered footage and dramatic reconstructions that plunge...
20) A foreign field
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Secrets are revealed and passions rekindled when British and American war vets return to Normandy on the 50th anniversary of D Day.
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