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D-Day : from the invasion to the liberation of Paris

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Format : Coffret
Nb de pages : 64 pages
Poids : 1773 g
Dimensions : 32cm X 28cm
EAN : 9782700024067

D-Day

from the invasion to the liberation of Paris


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Coffret 64 pages

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The "Day of Days" and its aftermath brought to life with reproductions of rare removable memorabilia D-Day-the largest amphibious invasion in history-took place on 6 June 1944. The subsequent battle of Normandy, which lasted until the end of August, involved over a million men from the U.S., Britain, Canada, France, Poland and Germany, and helped seal the fate of Hitler's Third Reich.

Written by one of Britain's best-known and respected military historians, The D-Day experience contains over 30 facsimile items of rare D-Day memorabilia integrated into the pages of the book. The reader can relive this momentous period of history by holding and examining maps, diaries, letters, secret memos and reports, posters and logbooks, which up until now have remained filed or exhibited in the Imperial War Museum and other collections around the world.

Biographie

Richard Holmes is professor of military and security studies at Cranfield University and the Defense Academy of the United Kingdom. He has presented six BBC TV documentary series, and wrote the accompanying best-sellers War Walks, The Western Front and Wellington: The Iron Duke. General editor of the Oxford Companion to Military History, he is also the author of Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket, and the Imperial War Museum's First and Second World Wars in Photographs.

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