{"product_id":"9781800962187-d-day-the-oral-history","title":"D-DAY The Oral History","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe full, momentous story. Told by the people who were there. A landmark new account of the single most important day of WW2, in the words of the people who lived it. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEighty years on, \u003ci\u003eD-Day The Oral History \u003c\/i\u003eis a fresh and significant new history of arguably the most important day of the 20th Century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn 6th June 1944, the Allied invasion began. For hours, wave after wave of soldiers, sailors, and airmen crossed the channel and stormed the Normandy coast, fighting to gain a foothold in Nazi-occupied Northwest Europe. It was the largest combined air and seaborne invasion ever, involving over 150,000 Allied troops on the ground, and its eventual success became a critical turning point in the war, spelling the beginning of the end for the Third Reich.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the events of that day fade from living memory, it's more important than ever to understand what it felt like to be there and to live through it, on both sides. In this definitive work, Garrett M. Graff, the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Only Plane in the Sky: The Oral History of 9\/11, \u003c\/i\u003ecompiles hundreds of US, Canadian, UK, French and German voices to tell the full story of exactly how that historic day unfolded, in visceral detail. From paratroopers to fighter pilots to nurses, generals, French villagers, German Defenders to Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt, this is the most intimate re-telling of D-Day published to date. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eTHE ONLY PLANE IN THE SKY: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"The most moving and chilling oral history you will read.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e The Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Incredibly evocative and compelling.\" \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"A hugely powerful new book.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e Dan Snow\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Astonishing book about an astonishing, terrifying atrocity, relived in real time by those who were there. I read it in one sitting \u0026amp; was utterly gripped from start to finish.\" \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePiers Morgan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41076016283745,"sku":"9781800962187","price":14.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/178b3e7dc02c1edcbe18eb2bf29d4055.jpg?v=1700037191","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781800962187-d-day-the-oral-history","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}