D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches

by Stephen E. Ambrose

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It is the young men born into the false prosperity of the 1920s and brought up in the bitter realities of the Depression of the 1930s that this book is about. The literature they read as youngsters was anti-war and cynical, portraying patriots as suckers, slackers and heroes. None of them wanted to be part of another war. They wanted to be throwing baseballs, not handgrenades; shooting .22s at rabbits, not M-1s at other young men. But when the test came, when freedom had to be fought for or abandoned, they fought (from the Prologue).

Book Details

ISBN13	9780743449748
ISBN10	0743449746
Series/Work	OL478554W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher	Pocket Books
Pages	655
Language	ENG
Created At	January 30, 2025
Updated At	January 30, 2025
Last OL update	January 18, 2025

Subjects

Alliierte Bataille de Normandie (1944) Campaigns European theater - world war ii - normandy invasion France, history, military Invasie (1944) Invasion Invasion (1944) Militärische Planung Military campaigns Military History Normandy (france), history Operation Overlord Weltkrieg World War, 1939-1945 World war, 1939-1945, campaigns, france, normandy

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