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Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1300L
Language
English
Description
A collection of eyewitness accounts captures the human drama, heroism, and sacrifice of the assault on Nazi-occupied France, accompanied by personal artifacts, historical and modern photographs, and war artists' paintings.
Author
Language
English
Description
This handsome commemorative volume contains hundreds of Allied and German photographs, many never seen before by the general public. Written by the coauthors of Gordon W. Prange's acclaimed bestsellers At Dawn We Slept and Miracle at Midway, D-Day Normandy is in the tradition of their highly successful pictorial, The Way It Was: Pearl Harbor. With text keyed to photos on the same page, it leads the reader through the dramatic experiences of D-Day...
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Madame Simone Renaud witnessed the liberation of France on June 6, 1944, from a very unique point, the small town of St. Mere-Eglise, the first town liberated in the Normandy invasion. It was there that Madame Renaud watched the tragedy and triumph unfold during the day that defined history. It was there that so many American soldiers found their final resting place. Madame Renaud spent a lifetime tending to the graves of those American soldiers and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Those who witnessed it never forgot it: the great armada of Allied ships that filled the English Channel on D-Day, June 6, 1944. From battleships, cruisers, and destroyers down to the much smaller landing ships and landing craft, these nearly 7,000 vessels bombarded the Normandy coast, ferried men, tanks, and equipment across the channel, and landed 150,000 troops--under withering German fire--on Omaha, Utah, Gold, Juno, and Sword beaches in a single...
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