Record details

• ISBN: 0740745093
• ISBN: 9780740745096
• Physical Description: 64 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), facsimiles ; 27 x 31 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
• Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : Andrews McMeel ; 2004.

Content descriptions

General Note:

At head of title: Imperial War Museum.

Includes index.

Issued in slipcase; includes folded maps and facsimile reproductions of various documents (letters, day books, log books, bank notes, newspaper clippings, Nazi Party membership document, and a poster), inserted into pockets or tipped in.

Sound disc, titled The D-Day experience : we fought in Normandy, consists of first-person accounts of the invasion.

Formatted Contents Note:

Normandy campaign map -- The planning -- The leaders -- German forces & defenses -- Deception & intelligence -- The resistance -- Pegasus bridge -- British airborne assault -- U.S. airborne assault -- Utah Beach -- Pointe du Hoc -- Omaha Beach -- Godl Beach -- Juno Beach -- Sword Beach -- Villers-Bocage -- Pluto & Mulberry -- Operation epsom -- Bocage fighting & Cherbourg -- Operation Charnwood -- Medics -- Battle for St-Lô -- Operation Goodwood -- Operation Cobra -- Operation Lüttich -- Tactical air support -- Operations Totalize & Tractable -- The Falaise pocket -- The liberation of Paris.

Search for related items by subject

Subject:

World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > France > Normandy.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > France > Normandy > Personal narratives.
Operation Overlord.
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives.

Genre:

Sound recordings.
Personal narratives.