{"product_id":"d-day-book-giles-milton-9781473649019","title":"D-Day","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Vivid, graphic and moving' \u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'It has a wonderful immediacy and vitality - living history in every sense' Anthony Horowitz\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Fantastic' Dan Snow\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Compellingly authentic, revelatory and beautifully written. A gripping tour de force' Damien Lewis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Stirring and unsettling in equal measure, this is history writing at its most powerful' \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlmost seventy-five years have   passed since D-Day, the day of the greatest seaborne invasion in history.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn   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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGiles   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, \u003ci\u003eD-Day: The Soldiers' Story\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis   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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49550063632657,"sku":"GOR009333421","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49592673599761,"sku":"GOR012870877","price":11.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49735023296785,"sku":"NGR9781473649019","price":39.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49977500074257,"sku":"GOR013337751","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50026812014865,"sku":"GOR009876076","price":12.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50096671260945,"sku":"CIN1473649013VG","price":15.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51461218894097,"sku":"CIN1473649013G","price":8.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1473649013.jpg?v=1751430770","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/d-day-book-giles-milton-9781473649019","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}