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D-Day: 24 Hours That Saved the World
Time-Life Books editors

D-Day: 24 Hours That Saved the World

24 Hours That Saved the World

Time Home Entertainment (May 24, 2004)
9781932273229
| Hardcover
160 pages | 208 x 284 mm | English
$ 29.50 | Value: $ 29.50
Dewey 943 TIM
LC Classification D756.5.N6 .D2 2004
LC Control No. 2003114085

Genre

  • Non-Fiction

Subject

  • History / Military / World War II
  • Normandy (France)
  • Photography / Photoessays & Documentaries
  • World War, 1939-1945/ Campaigns/ France/ Normandy

Plot

DESCRIPTION: On June 6, 2004, people the world over - especially Americans - will pause toremember the 60th anniversary of the Normandy invasion that forever changed history. D-Day: 24 Hoursthat Saved the World honors the 130,000 heroic American and Allied troops who risked their lives toliberate Europe and end the Nazi occupation. Here are fascinating portraits of the men who designed theinvasion - and the men who fought it: Eisenhower and Churchill, Montgomery and Rommel. Here arethe landing crafts, the medics, the radio operators, the nurses. Here are the memorable photographs,historic reunions, majestic cemeteries, the unforgettable memories of June 6, 1944.Here is D-Day: 24 Hours that Saved the World.