A Traveller's Guide to D-Day and the Battle for Normandy
Author : Carl Shilleto
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,87 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Normandy (France)
ISBN :
A Traveller's Guide to D-Day and the Battle for Normandy
Author : Carl Shilleto
Publisher : Interlink Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 23,14 MB
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : Travel
ISBN : 162371057X
Book 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.
D-Day and the Battle for Normandy
Author : Carl Shilleto
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,63 MB
Release : 2001-06
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 9781844370399
Book Description
The Traveller's Guides give information about museums, sites, memorials, statues and cemetaries; they tell you how to get there and what to see; they offer maps and photographs, and they contain comprehsenive accounts of major battles. But, more than that, the Traveller's Guides help us understand what it was like to have endured the ordeal of combat. Through their own words we learn the feelings of the young men of many nationalities who fought and died there. What were their private thoughts and fears? Their personal memories? Contemporary eyewitness accounts, woven into the fabric of each title give the series an immediacy and vividness that marks a new departure. 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 to control much of northern France.
Rough Guides Travel The Liberation Route Europe (Travel Guide eBook)
Author : Rough Guides
Publisher : Apa Publications (UK) Limited
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 14,54 MB
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1789196221
Book Description
Rough Guides Travel The Liberation Route Europe Discover the sights and experiences along the path of the Liberation Route in Europe with this inspirational, authoritative and beautifully illustrated Rough Guide, published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. Following the Allied advance through Europe, Rough Guides Travel The Liberation Route Europe explores the important sights related to the Liberation in nine European countries. Features of Rough Guides Travel The Liberation Route Europe: -Detailed regional coverage: provides information on all the important sights linked to the Liberation in nine countries - starting in the UK where much of the planning and preparation took place, then Italy, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany -Evocative features: inspirational biographies of war heroes from all nine countries, authoritative features on the role of colonial troops, war brides, the Prague uprising and many more. Inter-chapter features reflect upon the Resistance movements, the Holocaust and the liberation of the camps and the post-Liberation reconstruction - Meticulous mapping: always full colour, with clear numbered, colour-coded keys - Fabulous full-colour photography: features inspirational colour photography, including portraits of war heroes and thought-provoking historical images of the Liberation - Experiences: a selection of unique ways to learn more about events of the Liberation: explore the D-Day beaches in an historic D-Day Jeep in Normandy, France or experience the Sunset March - a daily tribute to the Allied Soldiers where a veteran (of any war) walks on the Crossing Bridge with street lamps lighting up with every step - in Nijmegen, Netherlands - Itineraries: carefully planned routes will help you organise your trip, and inspire and inform your on-the-road experiences - Background information: a comprehensive introduction to the end of World War II puts the events of the Liberation in context About Rough Guides: Rough Guides have been inspiring travellers for over 35 years, with over 30 million copies sold. Synonymous with practical travel tips,quality writing and a trustworthy 'tell it like it is' ethos, the Rough Guides list includes more than 260 travel guides to 120+ destinations, gift-books and phrasebooks.
Walking D-Day
Author : Paul Reed
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,19 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Normandy (France)
ISBN :
Book Description
The Normandy Battlefields
Author : Leo Marriott
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 19,81 MB
Release : 2014-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1612003389
Book Description
Experience the battlefields of D-Day in this beautiful book combining historical images, full-color aerial photography, and informative text. The D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied Normandy was the most dramatic turning point of World War II. With a combination of historic and contemporary photography, along with maps and other illustrations, The Normandy Battlefields takes readers “on-site” to the sacred battlegrounds. The armada that attacked from Britain left behind many signs of their passage. The Normandy Battlefields details what can be seen on the ground today using a mixture of media to provide a complete overview of the campaign. Maps old and new highlight what has survived and what hasn’t; then-and-now photography allows fascinating comparisons with the images taken at the time, and computer artwork provides graphic details of things that can’t be seen today. The book describes the area from Cherbourg to Le Havre by way of the key D-Day locations, providing a handbook for the visitor and an overview for the armchair traveler. It covers the forces from both sides and the memorials to those young men who fought so many years ago.
A Travel Guide to World War II Sites in Italy
Author : Anne Saunders
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 36,53 MB
Release : 2016-12-13
Category :
ISBN : 9781540566041
Book Description
THE BOOK SHOWN ON THIS PAGE IS THE UPDATED AND EXPANDED SECOND EDITION, published in December 2016. This new version adds tours of WWII sites in Sicily/southern Italy, and updates the descriptions of WWII sites in central and northern Italy. It also adds locations along the Adriatic coast, where the Eighth Army fought many battles. Altogether the new edition describes almost 200 sites. The guidebook closes with excerpts from the journal of a prisoner of war who spent months in Italian POW camps. Please note that book reviews prior to December 2016 refer to the FIRST edition, published in 2010 and no longer in print (although some first-edition copies are still for sale on the Amazon website).
D-Day Landing Beaches
Author : Georges Bernage
Publisher : Editions Heimdal
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 47,92 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9782840481379
Book Description
This spectacular, large format, full color, new book is quite simply the most impressive book of its type we have seen. Packed with over 200 photographs, maps and charts, the book is divided into the sectors associated with the Normandy landings in 1944. What's more it is extremely reasonably priced.
I Survived the Battle of D-Day, 1944 (I Survived #18)
Author : Lauren Tarshis
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 29,59 MB
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1338317407
Book Description
It was a battle that would change the course of World War II... New York Times bestselling author Lauren Tarshis commemorates the Normandy landings in this pulse-pounding story of the largest seaborne invasion in history. Eleven-year-old Paul’s French village has been under Nazi control for years. His Jewish best friend has disappeared. Food is scarce. And there doesn’t seem to be anything Paul can do to make things better. Then Paul finds an American paratrooper in a tree near his home. The soldier says the Allies have a plan to crush the Nazis once and for all. But the soldier needs Paul’s help. This is Paul’s chance to make a difference. Soon he finds himself in the midst of the largest invasion in history. Can he do his part to turn horror into hope? New York Times bestselling author Lauren Tarshis tells the story of the battle that became the foundation for the Allied victory in World War II. Includes a section of nonfiction backmatter with more facts about the real-life event.
Normandy '44
Author : James Holland
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 15,50 MB
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802148964
Book Description
On the 75th anniversary of D-Day, a new history of the momentous Normandy campaign with fresh insights from award-winning historian James Holland D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the seventy-six days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the west--the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. Yet as familiar as it is, as James Holland makes clear in his definitive history, many parts of the OVERLORD campaign, as it was known, are still shrouded in myth and assumed knowledge. Drawing freshly on widespread archives and on the testimonies of eye-witnesses, Holland relates the extraordinary planning that made Allied victory in France possible; indeed, the story of how hundreds of thousands of men, and mountains of materiel, were transported across the English Channel, is as dramatic a human achievement as any battlefield exploit. The brutal landings on the five beaches and subsequent battles across the plains and through the lanes and hedgerows of Normandy--a campaign that, in terms of daily casualties, was worse than any in World War I--come vividly to life in conferences where the strategic decisions of Eisenhower, Rommel, Montgomery, and other commanders were made, and through the memories of paratrooper Lieutenant Dick Winters of Easy Company, British corporal and tanker Reg Spittles, Thunderbolt pilot Archie Maltbie, German ordnance officer Hans Heinze, French resistance leader Robert Leblanc, and many others. For both sides, the challenges were enormous. The Allies confronted a disciplined German army stretched to its limit, which nonetheless caused tactics to be adjusted on the fly. Ultimately ingenuity, determination, and immense materiel strength--delivered with operational brilliance--made the difference. A stirring narrative by a pre-eminent historian, Normandy '44 offers important new perspective on one of history's most dramatic military engagements and is an invaluable addition to the literature of war.
