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Author Brinkley, Douglas.

Title Voices of valor : D-Day, June 6, 1944 / Douglas Brinkley and Ronald J. Drez.

Publication Info. New York : Bulfinch Press, [2004]
©2004

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 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  940.5421 B771    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  940.54 BRI    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  940.54 BRINKLEY    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  940.5421 Q BRINKLEY    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  940.5421 BRINKLEY    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Faxon Branch - Non Fiction  940.5421 BRINKLEY    Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  940.5421 BRI    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 185 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. + 2 audio discs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Contents Introduction -- Call to arms and gathering for d-day -- Launching the attack -- Battlefield isolated: help from the resistance and the SOE -- Dropping from the skies: British attack on the east flank -- Over the Atlantic wall: American airborne drop on the cotentin peninsula -- Crossing the channel: air and sea armadas -- Utah beach -- Rangers at the pointe -- 16th regiment at Omaha beach -- 116th regiment: into the jaws of hell -- British 2nd army at Gold, Juno, and Sword beaches -- Aftermath -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- Photo credits.
Summary Published for the 60th anniversary of D-Day, this lushly illustrated volume with audio CDs presents gripping, firsthand accounts of the Normandy invasion with a central narrative by one of America's preeminent historians. A compelling compilation of firsthand accounts of the Normandy invasion presents forty remarkable oral histories that recount the events and experiences of D-Day from the perspectives of the veterans themselves, accompanied by a selection of interviews on CD.
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy -- Personal narratives.
Oral history.
Compact discs.
Added Author Drez, Ronald J., 1940-
ISBN 0821228897
Standard No. 9780821228890
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