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Ten Days to D-Day

Citizens and Soldiers on the Eve of the Invasion

Contributors

By David Stafford

Formats and Prices

On Sale
May 25, 2005
Page Count
416 pages
Publisher
Da Capo
ISBN-13
9780306814228

Price

$24.99

Format

Trade Paperback

Format:

Trade Paperback $24.99

Ten days before the largest operation of World War II was launched, it was still one of the century’s best-kept secrets — thanks to countless ordinary people participating in one of history’s most remarkable moments. David Stafford has written a riveting account of ten of those ordinary men and women — including an American paratrooper, a German soldier, a nineteen-year-old English woman working on secret codes, a Parisian Jew in hiding, and a daring French resistance cell — as they lived through ten very extraordinary days. Drawing on previously unpublished diaries and letters, Stafford gives readers a fresh point of entry into one of the most significant battles ever fought.Ten Days to D-Day buzzes with the pace of a novel, as Stafford moves from country to country, from character to character, including some of D-Day’s leaders: Hitler, Rommel, Eisenhower, and Churchill. Stafford compellingly brings to life the final days before the invasion through the eyes of its participants, the citizens and soldiers that made history on June 6, 1944.

David Stafford

About the Author

A leading writer on military intelligence and project director at the Center for Second World War Studies at the University of Edinburgh, David Stafford is the author of Churchill and the Secret Service, Spies Beneath Berlin, and Ten Days to D-Day.

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