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Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris
by Keegan, John
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- good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0140052933
- ISBN 13
- 9780140052930
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About This Item
New York: Penguin, 1983 1st ed. thus. 365pp. illus. paperback: Good [text is age browned; some foxing of edges; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A classic account of the Normandy invasion and the Allies' ultimate breakout from the Falaise pocket on the road to Paris.
Synopsis
Acclaimed military historian John Keegan’s investigation into World War II and the Normandy Invasion The armies of six nations met on the battlefields of Normandy in what was to be the greatest Allied achievement of World War II. With dramatic, driving power, John Keegan describes the massed armies—American, Canadian, English, French, German, and Polish—at successive stages of the invasion. As he details the strategies of the military engagements, Keegan brilliantly shows how each of the armies reflected its own nation's values and traditions. In a new introduction written especially to commemorate the 50th anniversary of D-Day, he contemplates the ways the events at the battle of Normandy still reverberate today. “The best military historian of our generation.” –Tom Clancy “John Keegan writes about war better than almost anyone in our century.” –The Washington Post Book World “Very dramatic… Very well done… a book which conjures romance from some very hard fighting.” –A. J. P. Taylor, The New York Review of Books “The story of this vast, complex, and risky amphibious assault, and the campaign which followed, has been told many times, but never better than by John Keegan.” –The Wall Street Journal
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- Auldfarran Books, IOBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22572
- Title
- Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris
- Author
- Keegan, John
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1983 1st ed. thus.
- ISBN 10
- 0140052933
- ISBN 13
- 9780140052930
- Publisher
- New York: Penguin
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1983-06-06
- Keywords
- WORLD WAR II TWO SECOND ALLIED INVASION FALAISE POCKET FRANCE FREE FRENCH POLISH ARMY IN EXILE WESTERN ALLIES WEHRMACHT
- Bookseller catalogs
- World War Two;
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