Now this definitive illustrated history compellinglyre-cereates vevry moment of that unfowgettable day.Historian Dan van der Vat covers all the perspectives of the D-Day invasion wity vew insights gaines from the latest research .Beginning with the first tenattive plans to free Europe from hitler's tyranny,van der vattraces the story of Operation Overlord through to the actusl invasion and beyond .Complementing the text are humdres of evocative black and white photographs an well as well as dramatic paintings by the many war artists who captured the action as it unfolded in the air ,on shore and in the nearby towns and villages.
Thousands of men landed on the beaches of Normandy om June6.1944,And each man who survived had a unipue story to tell.Many of these previously unpublished ryewitness accounts appear here for the first time ,accompanied by rare photographs from personal albums and artifacts from private collections .Specially commissiomde comtemporary color photographs by peter christopher are used in compelling "then-and -now features-and detailed maps illuminate each stge of the great and detailed maps illuminate each dtage of the great and daring campaign that became the turming point of the Secomd World War.
作者简介:
Dan van der Vat，is the author of Pearl Harbor:The Day of Infamy-An Illustrated History,which was hailed as the most"accurate,colorful and authentic"account ever presented of the attack,His two definitive studies of World War ll battles at sea-The Atlantic Campaign and The Pacific Campaign:The U.S Japanese Naval War,1941-45-are on the recommended reading list for officers in the United States Navy.His other books inclde The Riddle of the Titanic,The Grand Scuttle,The Good Nazi,The Life and Lies of Albert Speer and,most recently,Standard of Power;The Royal Navy in the Twentieth Century. |
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