Sand and Steel: The D-Day Invasion and the Liberation of France Tapa dura - 2019

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Sand & Steel: The D-Day Invasion and the Liberation of France by Peter Caddick-Adams
"Tuesday 6 June 1944 was a day like no other." So begins this history of D-Day, published on the occasion of its 75th anniversary. It was a day like no other with good reason. The invasion of Normandy by Allied forces was perhaps the greatest and most consequential military operation of modern times, heralding the beginning of the end of World War II in Europe. Its hold on the imagination remains no less commanding than when news of it first broke.
Yet despite the extensive number of books and films on D-Day across the decades, doing justice even to the events of that one day poses huge challenges. Most have viewed it through either too mythic or too narrow a lens -- focusing on a particular operation, nationality, outfit, or individual. American, British, and Canadian troops were dropped from the air or landed from thousands of vessels on five beaches that were operation Neptune and Overlord's designated targets.… Leer más

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"Capturing the full extent of D-Day is beyond the reach of any one account, but Sand and Steel comes closer than anything attempted to this point." Extensive notes and index. Very good in VG dust jacket. Head and heel of spine bumped, binding lightly pushed at head of spine. Dust jacket has several small red marks on rear panel, small wrinkle to top edge of front panel,

Oxford University Press. New in New dust jacket. 2019. First Edition; First Printing. THICK Hardcover, illus. 0190601892 . Book and DJ Mint. NO notes, names or ANY markings. New DJ not clipped, unpriced. NO stickers. ; Book ships in a box, USA; Thick 8vo; 1025 pages; Book selling price at rear of DJ ($34.95) .