Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris Tapa dura - 1982

Hardback. Very Good.

Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1982-04. Hardcover. Good. 3.8071 cent in x 23.0964 cent in x 14.7208 cent in. Reprint Edition without Jacket on black cloth - collectable - will send out 1 st class post

(Subject: World War II - Western Europe) From the landings in Normandy to the Liberation of Paris, June 6th to August 25th 1944. The Allied assault on Normandy beaches was a success, but it was to take three months of bitter fighting before the German defence of Normandy finally collapsed and Paris was liberated. In this account of that struggle, the battles of the soldiers of the Canadian, Polish, German, American, French and British Armies is related from the point of view of each different nationality. (Published: 1982) (Publisher: Jonathan Cape) (ISBN: 0224015419) (Pagination: xiix + 365pp, 43 ills, 8 maps) (Condition: Good in d/w. Pages edges browning) UL-XXXXXX

London: Jonathan Cape. 2nd printing (1982). 365pp. VG/VG copy, ink name to title page, now preserved in mylar jacket protector . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1982.

Jonathan Cape, 1982. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Hardback reprint, 1982, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition with only slight signs of age, handling and storage - dust jacket a touch tanned to spine (now protected); boards clean and crisp. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions - small name and address label to half-title page; text, maps and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book.

Jonathan Cape, London, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. 600 g; XVIII, 366 pages, with appendices references, select bibliography, and index as well as index of formations and units. End page maps, of the Normandy battlefield, book is illustrated with 43 black-and-white photographs and 8 maps. Photographic illustrated dustjacket slightly rubbed across the top edge, and the major, if it can be called that, fault with the book, is that the paper has slightly tanned with age. Through a series of astonishingly vivid and detailed episodes, the reader is subject it to the gruelling ordeals that would confront the Allies in the field -- some entailing crushing defeat to individual fighting units -- before victory could be proclaimed. Each of these encounters is told from the point of view of a different nationality, so that at no time can one escape the universality of experience on all sides, though the progress of the battle as a whole remains clearly… Leer más

London: Jonathan Cape, 1982. First U.K. Edition. good, very good. 365, illus., maps, endpaper maps, appendix, references, bibliography, index, some creasing to DJ edges, foxing to edges. The six armies of the title are the Americans, Canadians, English, Germans, Poles, and the French.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Jonathan Cape, 1982-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!