Synopses & Reviews
D-Day 1944, Voices from Normandy is an oral history of D-Day where the stories of that long and violent day on the Calvados Coast of Normandy are told in the words of the men who were there: Americans, British, Canadians, French and German. Follow these men ashore, up the beach, and into the battle for Normandy.
The men who landed on UTAH and OMAHA beach, cracked the Atlantic Wall at Arromanches, parachuted into Carantan or Ste Mere Eglise, or stormed Pegasus Bridge and the Merville battery, tell the reader what it was like to be there, in the midst of the most important single battle of World War II. The view from landing ship, tank turret, parachute harness or infantry fox hole has never been better told than in the pages of this absorbing book.
About the Author
Robin Neillands, recently made a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a long-time member of the British Commission for Military History, is the author of Cold Spring Press's Winston Churchill: Statesman of the Century (October 2003). 'One of Britain's most readable historians' (Birmingham Post), Rob is a regular contributor to British newspapers and magazines, and the author of more than 30 books. He is well-known as a popular military historian. His history books include The Hundred Years War (Routledge) and The Wars of the Roses (Cassell), The Desert Rats (Weidenfeld and Orion paperbacks), the best-selling D-Day: Voices from Normandy (Cassell, hardcover, 1993) and The Conquest of the Reich - these two were Readers Digest Best Non-Fiction titles 1995-1996. His latest military history book, The Battle of Normandy (Sterling) has just been listed by the prestigious Sunday Times of London newspaper as one of the six best military histories of 2002. Rob lectures on military history at the British National Army Museum and Oxford University.
Roderick de Normann was an officer in the British Army, serving with a tank unit in the Gulf War until retiring with the rank of major. He is also the author of a best selling work on German prisoners in Britain during World War 2 - later converted for television and is now working on a history of tank warfare.