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Voices from D-Day

Eyewitness Accounts from the Battle of Normandy

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Voices from D-Day

By: Jon E. Lewis
Narrated by: Peter Noble
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The extraordinary and compelling story of the 6th of June, 1944, Operation Overlord and the Battle for Normandy is told here through first-hand testimonies from civilians and soldiers on both sides.

It features classic accounts by soldiers such as Rommel and Bradley, together with frontline reports by some of the world's finest authors and war correspondents, including Ernest Hemingway and Alan Melville.

Highlights of this unique collection include the break-out from Omaha beach as told by the GI who led it, a French housewife's story of what it was like to wake up to the invasion, German soldiers' accounts of finding themselves facing the biggest seaborne invasion in history, a view from the command post by a member of Eisenhower's staff, combat reports, diaries, and letters of British veterans of all forces and services, and accounts of the follow-up battle for Normandy, one of the bloodiest struggles of the war. < /p>

The Allied armada involved over 5,000 craft, which had by the end of "the longest day" succeeded in landing 156,000 men, and in breaching Hitler's much vaunted defensive wall. Dramatic and historic though the events of D-Day were, they were but the opening shots of a much larger and equally remarkable battle - the battle for Normandy. It took the Allies ten weeks of bloody fighting to get out of Normandy, during which the infantry casualty rate rivalled that of the Western Front in the First World War.< /p>

This book is the story of that fateful day, the preparations which led up to it, and the ten weeks of fighting in Normandy which followed it, told by the men and women who were there, who witnessed it at first hand. It is compiled from interviews with scores of veterans, from diaries, memoirs, and letters.

Occasionally, exact chronology has been sacrificed in the interests of communicating better the experience of Normandy, for above all this is a book about how the invasion looked and felt to those who were there. It is often brutally honest, far removed from the comfortable romantic version of D-Day and the battle for Normandy. (For example, there are accounts here of crimes committed against German POWs by Allied soldiers.)

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The book was brilliant. I have read many stories and watched many documentaries of WW2, and this stood out. Hearing the stories of day to day life was just as interesting as the awful conditions they had to deal with on the beachhead, and hedge to hedge combat.
The different perspectives of English, American, French, and German made the book more interesting, as so many times do you only get one side of a story.
All gave some, some gave all is never a truer statement.

An interesting insight to life during a major conflict.

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This audible brings to life what it was like on the beaches parents should let there children listen to it, great piece of our history.

Good Listen

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The last chapter: Aftermath. So moving. So powerful. I have listened and re-listened. D-Day: the pivot on which the entire 20th Century balanced… absolutely. I never thought of it that way before.

Powerful. Moving.

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A lot of information & details not normally covered in a traditional history of the campaign.
The human side their thoughts & feelings

Felt like I was there

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The only negative I would give this book was when they change the accents of the soldiers. Was ok at first but did start to get very annoying particular the Welsh one. 🙄 no offence to the Welsh.

Was a good listen but...

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A very moving story told brilliantly.
I’ve listened now to a few of Peter Nobles and worth noting 👍

Worth downloading

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I enjoyed the narrator and think the mix of explaining the progress from d day along with a wide range of witness accounts makes this book very valuable historically.

interesting mix of history and witness accounts

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Love this book. I have always enjoyed this type of book short individual accounts. Very informative book with very sad and moving accounts from both sides. Will most definitely read again. I wasn't a fan of the accents used to highlight Americans, French etc , I would very much recommend this book

Fantastic book from start to finish

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Apart from the readers terrible various accents, be it Welsh, officer class or Limey foot soldiers ; this is the chance to hear from both “sides” the effects of war.

Voices from D-Day.

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It was a pleasure to listen to the account s of all the great men and women that took part in this epic battle between good and evil.

Amazing Storey

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