When the sea came alive : an oral history of D-Day
Record details
- ISBN: 9781668027813
- ISBN: 166802781X
- ISBN: 9781668027820
- ISBN: 1668027828
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Physical Description:
print
xxv, 576 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, photographs (some color) ; 25 cm - Edition: First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Avid Reader Press, [2024]
- Copyright: ©2024
Content descriptions
General Note: | Maps on endpapers. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (511-544) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Author's note -- Foreword -- Part I: a world at war. War begins -- War comes to America -- 1943 -- The start of SHAEF -- Crossing the pond -- The American invasion -- Building the Atlantic Wall -- Keeping secrets -- Operation Fortitude -- The Mulberry Plan -- At Slapton Sands -- Exercise Tiger -- The transportation plan -- Picking the date -- Into the sausages -- Keep calm and carry on -- Learning the details -- Spring in Normandy with the Germans -- The D-Day weather forecast -- Part II: the landing. A note on chronology and military terminology -- Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's order of the day -- Paratroopers take off -- Operation Coup de Main -- The 6th airborne arrives in Normandy -- The paratrooper skytrain -- Night in the hedgerows -- Liberation comes to Sainte-Mère-Église -- Neptune rises -- Confusing the enemy -- Ashore in Normandy -- In the air over the beaches -- Heading ashore at Utah -- Naval forces at Utah -- The second wave at Utah -- The rangers at Pointe du Hoc -- Omaha beach -- Into the devil's garden -- Ashore at Omaha -- Getting off Omaha beach -- Afloat off Omaha beach --Jig sector, Gold beach -- The Green Howards take King sector -- Ashore at Juno -- Sword beach -- The news spreads -- Part III: the end of D-Day. Holding the eastern flank -- The walking wounded -- The Battle of La Fière Bridge -- Afternoon for the Germans -- End of D-Day -- Epilogue. |
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Genre: | Personal narratives. Oral histories. Anecdotes. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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George H. & Laura E. Brown Library | 940.542 Gra (Text) | 30308101351303 | Adult New Nonfiction | Checked out | 09/05/2024 |