Voices from D-Day
Eyewitness Accounts from the Battle of Normandy
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Narrated by:
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Peter Noble
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By:
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Jon E. Lewis
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The extraordinary and compelling story of the 6th of June, 1944, Operation Overlord and the Battle for Normandy is told here through first-hand testimonies from civilians and soldiers on both sides.
It features classic accounts by soldiers such as Rommel and Bradley, together with frontline reports by some of the world's finest authors and war correspondents, including Ernest Hemingway and Alan Melville.
Highlights of this unique collection include the break-out from Omaha beach as told by the GI who led it, a French housewife's story of what it was like to wake up to the invasion, German soldiers' accounts of finding themselves facing the biggest seaborne invasion in history, a view from the command post by a member of Eisenhower's staff, combat reports, diaries, and letters of British veterans of all forces and services, and accounts of the follow-up battle for Normandy, one of the bloodiest struggles of the war. < /p>
The Allied armada involved over 5,000 craft, which had by the end of "the longest day" succeeded in landing 156,000 men, and in breaching Hitler's much vaunted defensive wall. Dramatic and historic though the events of D-Day were, they were but the opening shots of a much larger and equally remarkable battle - the battle for Normandy. It took the Allies ten weeks of bloody fighting to get out of Normandy, during which the infantry casualty rate rivalled that of the Western Front in the First World War.< /p>
This book is the story of that fateful day, the preparations which led up to it, and the ten weeks of fighting in Normandy which followed it, told by the men and women who were there, who witnessed it at first hand. It is compiled from interviews with scores of veterans, from diaries, memoirs, and letters.
Occasionally, exact chronology has been sacrificed in the interests of communicating better the experience of Normandy, for above all this is a book about how the invasion looked and felt to those who were there. It is often brutally honest, far removed from the comfortable romantic version of D-Day and the battle for Normandy. (For example, there are accounts here of crimes committed against German POWs by Allied soldiers.)
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- Alec
- 05-09-24
An interesting insight to life during a major conflict.
The book was brilliant. I have read many stories and watched many documentaries of WW2, and this stood out. Hearing the stories of day to day life was just as interesting as the awful conditions they had to deal with on the beachhead, and hedge to hedge combat.
The different perspectives of English, American, French, and German made the book more interesting, as so many times do you only get one side of a story.
All gave some, some gave all is never a truer statement.
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- Ray Shakespeare
- 26-04-21
Good Listen
This audible brings to life what it was like on the beaches parents should let there children listen to it, great piece of our history.
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- Phil
- 12-08-23
Powerful. Moving.
The last chapter: Aftermath. So moving. So powerful. I have listened and re-listened. D-Day: the pivot on which the entire 20th Century balanced… absolutely. I never thought of it that way before.
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- John
- 29-05-22
Felt like I was there
A lot of information & details not normally covered in a traditional history of the campaign.
The human side their thoughts & feelings
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- gary
- 29-08-19
Was a good listen but...
The only negative I would give this book was when they change the accents of the soldiers. Was ok at first but did start to get very annoying particular the Welsh one. 🙄 no offence to the Welsh.
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- Gary63
- 19-05-21
Worth downloading
A very moving story told brilliantly.
I’ve listened now to a few of Peter Nobles and worth noting 👍
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- Alan Blair
- 10-12-20
Sadly Amazing
Amazing stories from all aspects of war.
Sad they had to face such dreadful challenges.
Beautifully narrated.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-04-19
Great story bad reading
Great story but terrible performance it was like an amateur dramatics performance on a cold rainy Wednesday night in hull which greatly distracted from the material
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- John Gilhooly
- 05-07-21
Voices from D-Day
The reader of this book ruined my listening of it with his many accents and dialects all very poor.From his American through to his German and French and British local accents plus his Welsh and Scottish accents sometimes sounding like Noel Coward in full swing.I was on the verge of sending it back and swiping it but found out it had only cost me £3 so I stuck with it.
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- Matt
- 09-06-24
Thrilling and moving accounts of D Day.
A great listen, well worth it if you want to get an idea of what it was like to be there. I really enjoyed the accounts of the soldiers who parachuted in. Quite moving at times as well.
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