Four twenty-year-olds travel from Chicago to New York on skateboards. Through interviews with military experts, Holland traces the progress of the overall campaign, focusing particularly on the days after the D-Day landings, so as to determine whether the campaign was 'successful' or not.

Normandy was a bloody battle of attrition but as James Holland points out,given the nature of the terrain and German tactics,it was inevitable. A Worthy Addition to Previous Books on the Normandy Campaign

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I'm not sure that's entirely accurate; it's just the author's spin on facts already well documented, in my opinion.

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This was different ,he liked this book a lot. Now that almost all of those are no longer with us, he uses first person accounts, such as diaries and contemporary accounts. . Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. In East Los Angeles, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get married, have children, and oversee the small, rundown family-owned textile factory. Yet as familiar as it is, as James Holland makes clear in his definitive history, many parts of the OVERLORD campaign, as it was known, are still shrouded in myth and assumed knowledge.

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To mark the 70th anniversary of D-Day, historian James Holland takes us through the depths of the operation, the brutal 77 day Battle for Normandy that came after the initial invasion. D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the seventy-six days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the west―the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries.

Epic.” “Impeccably researched and superbly written . . Not useful for people who don't know the history of d-day and not great for those who landed at Utah beach.

In this documentary, broadcast on the seventieth anniversary of the D- Day landings, historian James Holland reassesses the significance of the event, refocusing on its aims as well as looking at the extent to which both sides were prepared. .

. His earlier books relied heavily on in-person interviews with actual veterans and civilians. There is an immense amount of research in this book and Mr Holland does not hold back on the terrors of warfare, including in the pictures. Extremely well researched as usual. Story of a black woman in the South who was born into slavery in the 1850s and lives to become a part of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

One of the very best writers of WW2 historical books. He is a favorite of mine.

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Definitely not a British phrase. I found this description of the battle for France 1944 the most thorough I had read so far, and well balanced with a real intelligent understanding of events that have been misread for years.

Normandy 44 – EXTRAS; Sicily ’43: The First Assault on Fortress Europe ... Hugh ‘Jimmy’ James 16th January 2015 ... James Holland is a historian, writer, and broadcaster. “While the invasion’s first wave consumes half the book’s ammunition, Mr. Holland holds plenty in reserve for the Allied crawl through hedgerow country, the battle with Hitler’s panzers at Caen, the brilliant breakout of Operation Cobra seven weeks after D-Day, and the corpse-strewn German retreat through the Falaise Gap .

James Holland is an actor and writer, known for Edward Enderby, Imphal & Kohima: Britain's Greatest Battle (2018) and Battle of Britain: The Real Story (2010).

Lots of fascinating details, interspersed with first hand accounts of the battle from the people who fought on both sides. The model takes into account factors including the age of a rating, whether the ratings are from verified purchasers, and factors that establish reviewer trustworthiness.Sorry, we failed to record your vote.

Personal narratives from both Allied and German officers and air and ground troops, along with technical descriptions of weapons manufacture and use, provide an absorbing perspective on one of the most significant events in modern military history. he found few errors and a wider scope than previously available.

Use the HTML below. I order mostly from Amazon. This is a well written book with many novel viewpoints that question the normal wisdom. . Well written , informative and honest.