D-Day
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Giles Milton
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Giles Milton
About this listen
'Compellingly authentic, revelatory and beautifully written. A gripping tour de force' Damien Lewis
Almost seventy-five years have passed since D-Day, the day of the greatest seaborne invasion in history. The outcome of the Second World War hung in the balance on that chill June morning. If Allied forces succeeded in gaining a foothold in northern France, the road to victory would be open. But if the Allies could be driven back into the sea, the invasion would be stalled for years, perhaps forever.
An epic battle that involved 156,000 men, 7,000 ships and 20,000 armoured vehicles, the desperate struggle that unfolded on 6 June 1944 was, above all, a story of individual heroics - of men who were driven to keep fighting until the German defences were smashed and the precarious beachheads secured. Their authentic human story - Allied, German, French - has never fully been told.
Giles Milton's bold new history narrates the day's events through the tales of survivors from all sides: the teenage Allied conscript, the crack German defender, the French resistance fighter. From the military architects at Supreme Headquarters to the young schoolboy in the Wehrmacht's bunkers, D-Day: The Soldiers' Story lays bare the absolute terror of those trapped in the frontline of Operation Overlord. It also gives voice to those hitherto unheard - the French butcher's daughter, the Panzer Commander's wife, the chauffeur to the General Staff.
This vast canvas of human bravado reveals 'the longest day' as never before - less as a masterpiece of strategic planning than a day on which thousands of scared young men found themselves staring death in the face. It is drawn in its entirety from the raw, unvarnished experiences of those who were there.
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- Giles Haynes
- 30-01-2023
I thought I knew everything about D-Day. I did not
I thought I knew everything I needed to know about D-Day. I did not. Simply a superb book and well narrated. It's quite graphic in parts and I had to stop listening at one point as it was quite overwhelming. I cannot recommend highly enough.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-03-2019
A must read/listen
A brilliantly written book piecing together the first hand accounts of both Allied and Axis personnel on one of the most momentous days in history. Milton has done an excellent job pulling the reader in so one can clearly imagine everything from the elation to pure terror many of these poor souls went through. A truely heart breaking story of struggle, survival and wholesale slaughter personified and brought go life for the reader. A must read/listen.
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- Roger T. G. Patterson
- 15-07-2023
‘Reckless abandon’
Tips for the narrator:
If … YOU … EMPHASISE EVERY WORD … THEN … NOTHING IS EMPHASISED. The listener is just left with a headache.
Understatement is a thing.
Exciting events like D-Day don’t need much added excitement from the narrator.
Check pronunciation of ‘gunwales’ FGS.
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