D-Day Through French Eyes
Normandy 1944
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Nancy Peterson
About this listen
Silent parachutes dotting the night sky—that's how one Normandy woman learned that the D-Day invasion was under way in June of 1944. Though they yearned for liberation, the French had to steel themselves for war, knowing that their homes, lands, and fellow citizens would have to bear the brunt of the attack.
With D-Day Through French Eyes, Mary Louise Roberts turns the conventional narrative of D-Day on its head, taking listeners across the Channel to view the invasion anew. Roberts builds her history from an impressive range of gripping first-person accounts by French citizens throughout the region. A farm family notices that cabbage is missing from their garden—then discovers that the guilty culprits are American paratroopers hiding in the cowshed. Fishermen rescue pilots from the wreck of their B-17, then search for clothes big enough to disguise them as civilians. A young man learns to determine whether a bomb is whistling overhead or silently plummeting toward them. When the allied infantry arrived, French citizens guided them to hidden paths and little-known bridges, giving them crucial advantages over the German occupiers. As she did in her acclaimed account of GIs in postwar France, What Soldiers Do, Roberts here sheds vital new light on a story we thought we knew.
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- Steve
- 22-04-23
An opportunity missed
A disappointing audiobook, didn’t really get going and a shame that only accounts based around American troops was included.
How can you tell a story about D Day, when you miss out anything to do with British, Canadian, commonwealth and other nations involved.
Narration was, at times, hard to listen to. Over pronounced names and such.
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- cj
- 27-06-24
Ok but repetitive
The narrator is excruciating with her constipated French pronunciation. It would have been far better if it’d been easier to understand the place names referred to but the narrator made it impossible. The book was OK, bit repetitive and not overly interesting although it could have been. It was too narrow..the arrival of the Americans wasn’t that interesting and she doesn’t use the testimonies to evidence the route after D Day. To make this a far better piece of work she should have included other sources views of the allies arriving on other beaches. As usual, written for the American market and distorting facts of what actually happened in WW2
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- Bill
- 05-10-24
poor research I would say
couldn't differentiate between the narrative and the actual person's stories
also I do not believe a five years old remembering of history going back centuries
very poor
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