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80th ANNIVERSARY EDITION Produced in collaboration with Imperial War Museums Relive the day that changed the course of history. On 6 June 1944, D-Day marked the beginning of a campaign that involved more than a million men and helped seal the fate of Hitler's Germany. Written by esteemed military historian Richard Holmes and including rare documents, diaries and secret memos from the archives of the Imperial War Museums, D-Day Remembered details the planning, execution and aftermath of the most momentous event of the Second World War.

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Author:   Imperial War Museum ,  Richard Holmes
Publisher:   Headline Publishing Group
Imprint:   Welbeck
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 25.00cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 28.60cm
Weight:   1.510kg
ISBN:  

9781802798548

ISBN 10:   1802798544
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   09 May 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

The Planning • The Leaders; German Forces & Defences • Deception & Intelligence • Resistance and SOE • Pegasus Bridge • British Airborne Assault • US Airborne Assault • Utah Beach • Pointe du Hoc • Omaha Beach • Gold Beach • Juno Beach • Sword Beach • Villers Bocage • Pluto and Mulberries • Operation Epsom • Bocage and the Capture of Cherbourg • Medics • Battle for St Lô • Operation Goodwood • Operation Cobra • Operation Lüttich • Allied Air Support • Operations Totalize and Tractable • The Falaise Pocket • Crossing the Seine and the Liberation of Paris.

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Professor Richard Holmes was one of the UK's leading military historians. As well as being the General Editor of the Oxford Companion to Military History, he presented several documentary series for the BBC. His books included The Napoleonic Wars Experience, as well as Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front, Wellington: The Iron Duke and Red Coat. He died in 2011. IWM (Imperial War Museums) is a leading authority on conflict and its impact, from the First World War to the present. A family of five museums, IWM illustrates and records all aspects of modern war and of the individual's experience of it, whether allied or enemy, service or civilian, military or political, social or cultural.

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