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D-Day Through French Eyes: Normandy 1944
Mary Louise Roberts
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Description for D-Day Through French Eyes: Normandy 1944
Hardcover. Though they yearned for liberation, the French in Normandy nonetheless had to steel themselves for war, knowing that their homes and land and fellow citizens would have to bear the brunt of the attack. In this book, the author turns the usual stories of D-Day around, taking readers across the Channel to view the invasion anew. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
Like big black umbrellas, they rain down on the fields across the way, and then disappear behind the black line of the hedges. Silent parachutes dotting the night sky - that's how one woman in Normandy in June of 1944 learned that the D-Day invasion was under way. Though they yearned for liberation, the French in Normandy nonetheless had to steel themselves for war, knowing that their homes and land and fellow citizens would have to bear the brunt of the attack. Already battered by years of Nazi occupation, they knew they had one more trial to undergo even as ... Read more
Like big black umbrellas, they rain down on the fields across the way, and then disappear behind the black line of the hedges. Silent parachutes dotting the night sky - that's how one woman in Normandy in June of 1944 learned that the D-Day invasion was under way. Though they yearned for liberation, the French in Normandy nonetheless had to steel themselves for war, knowing that their homes and land and fellow citizens would have to bear the brunt of the attack. Already battered by years of Nazi occupation, they knew they had one more trial to undergo even as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226136998
SKU
V9780226136998
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Ref
99-17
About Mary Louise Roberts
Mary Louise Roberts is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in WWII France.
Reviews for D-Day Through French Eyes: Normandy 1944
"This clear-eyed examination of what randy American soldiers got up to in France from D-Day through 1946 strips away the sentimentality from the overworked, cliched portrayal of the Greatest Generation." (Publishers Weekly) "Roberts has amassed an enormous amount of detailed information and her... book provides a refreshing view of the price of liberation." (Literary Review)"