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Author : Ronald Drez
Release : 2015-07-14
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 453/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Remember D-Day by : Ronald Drez
Download or read book Remember D-Day written by Ronald Drez. This book was released on 2015-07-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the events and personalities involved in the momentous Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944.
Author : Michael Dolski
Release : 2016-04-15
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 188/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis D-Day Remembered by : Michael Dolski
Download or read book D-Day Remembered written by Michael Dolski. This book was released on 2016-04-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: D-Day, the Allied invasion of northwestern France in June 1944, has remained in the forefront of American memories of the Second World War to this day. Depictions in books, news stories, documentaries, museums, monuments, memorial celebrations, speeches, games, and Hollywood spectaculars have overwhelmingly romanticized the assault as an event in which citizen-soldiers—the everyday heroes of democracy—engaged evil foes in a decisive clash fought for liberty, national redemption, and world salvation. In D-Day Remembered, Michael R. Dolski explores the evolution of American D-Day tales over the course of the past seven decades. He shows the ways in which that particular episode came to overshadow so many others in portraying the twentieth century’s most devastating cataclysm as “the Good War.” With depth and insight, he analyzes how depictions in various media, such as the popular histories of Stephen Ambrose and films like The Longest Day and Saving Private Ryan, have time and again reaffirmed cherished American notions of democracy, fair play, moral order, and the militant, yet non-militaristic, use of power for divinely sanctioned purposes. Only during the Vietnam era, when Americans had to confront an especially stark challenge to their pietistic sense of nationhood, did memories of D-Day momentarily fade. They soon reemerged, however, as the country sought to move beyond the lamentable conflict in Southeast Asia. Even as portrayals of D-Day have gone from sanitized early versions to more realistic acknowledgments of tactical mistakes and the horrific costs of the battle, the overarching story continues to be, for many, a powerful reminder of moral rectitude, military skill, and world mission. While the time to historicize this morality tale more fully and honestly has long since come, Dolski observes, the lingering positive connotations of D-Day indicate that the story is not yet finished.
Author : Patricia Brennan Demuth
Release : 2015-04-21
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 972/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis What Was D-Day? by : Patricia Brennan Demuth
Download or read book What Was D-Day? written by Patricia Brennan Demuth. This book was released on 2015-04-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, an armada of 7,000 ships carrying 160,000 Allied troops stormed the beaches of Nazi-occupied France. Up until then the Allied forces had suffered serious defeats, yet D -Day, as the invasion was called, spelled the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany and the Third Reich. Readers will dive into the heart of the action and discover how it was planned and carried out and how it overwhelmed the Germans who had been tricked into thinking the attack would take place elsewhere. D-Day was a major turning point in World War II and hailed as one of the greatest military attacks of all time.
Author : Frank Shaw (Collator of war-time memories)
Release : 2014
Genre : World War, 1939-1945
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis We Remember D-Day by : Frank Shaw (Collator of war-time memories)
Download or read book We Remember D-Day written by Frank Shaw (Collator of war-time memories). This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventy years ago, on 6 June 1944, a great Allied Armada landed on the coast of Normandy. The invasion force launched on D-Day was a size never seen before and never likely to be seen again. In this book, we hear from the men and women who were involved in the assault; those who risked their lives for a better future.
Author : Rick Atkinson
Release : 2014-05-06
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 116/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis D-Day by : Rick Atkinson
Download or read book D-Day written by Rick Atkinson. This book was released on 2014-05-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a young reader's adaptation of "The Guns at Last Light," tracing the Battle of Normandy and the Allied liberation of Western Europe through the end of World War II.
