- Hardcover: 388 pages
- Publisher: Little, Brown & Company; illustrated edition edition (4 Sep 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0316724777
- ISBN-13: 978-0316724777
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.8 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,500,781 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is an enjoyable account of the lead-up to the D-Day landings. It follows the lives of those caught up in the Normandy landings from the great and the good (including Churchill, Eisenhower, De Gaulle) to the average men or women at war (a young English WREN, Canadian and US soldiers, a German soldier, French resistance fighters, a Norwegian POW and a Jewish immigrant hiding in Paris). It reads like a novel and is actually quite gripping, even if you do know what happens. I was especially fascinated by the workings of the British double agent sending false information about Allied intentions from London. It certainly helped me realise what a precarious operation the Normandy landings were.
I suspect that for those that are already quite familiar with D-Day history this might be rather "light-weight", but I found it to be an extremely good introduction to this area of history and has left me wanting to read a more detailed account.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book was a great surprise, as it was a cheap mass market book I did not expect too much from it, however, I was very pleased that I bought it.
I am an avid military history enthusiast and I have read several hundred books regarding the second world war. There was a surprising amount of information in this book that I have not read before, and the cronological format of events from several different perspectives in very refreshing.
If you are interested in the subject matter, I highly reccommend this book. It is considerably better than some of the more famous tomes from very well respected authors. 5 out of 5 for me.
I am an avid military history enthusiast and I have read several hundred books regarding the second world war. There was a surprising amount of information in this book that I have not read before, and the cronological format of events from several different perspectives in very refreshing.
If you are interested in the subject matter, I highly reccommend this book. It is considerably better than some of the more famous tomes from very well respected authors. 5 out of 5 for me.
Format:Paperback
The real strength of the book is its biographical weaving of the narratives of individuals and setting those within the wider context of the war and its political framing. Where the book is perhaps weakest is the choice of some of the individuals. The account of the Norwegian resistance organiser's time in jail is interesting, but has no baring whatsoever on the D-Day landings, and indeed he knew nothing about them and played no role in the lead up to them. The German soldier similarly played no direct role in D-Day being posted a long way behind the front. It would have been good to have included some other characters that were more centrally involved. The other issue is that the book does feel as if it ends too soon. We get the lead in to the main event, but get very little of the event itself and what follows. The reader is warned by the title that this would be the case, but it does feel that the story is too truncated. Overall, a fascinating read that needed a little fine tuning.
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