TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brinkley,Douglas
AU  - Drez,Ronald J.
TI  - Voices of valor: D-Day, June 6, 1944 
SN  - 0821228897
AV  - D 756.5 .N6 B75 2004
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New York
PB  - Bulfinch Press
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - France
KW  - Normandy
KW  - Personal narratives
KW  - Oral history
KW  - Books on compact disc
N1  - Introduction -- Call to arms and gathering for d-day -- Launching the attack -- Battlefield isolated: help from the resistance and the SOE -- Dropping from the skies: British attack on the east flank -- Over the Atlantic wall: American airborne drop on the cotentin peninsula  -- Crossing the channel: air and sea armadas -- Utah beach -- Rangers at the pointe -- 16th regiment at Omaha beach -- 116th regiment: into the jaws of hell -- British 2nd army at Gold, Juno, and Sword beaches -- Aftermath -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- Photo credits
N2  - Published for the 60th anniversary of D-Day, this lushly illustrated volume with audio CDs presents gripping, firsthand accounts of the Normandy invasion with a central narrative by one of America's preeminent historians. A compelling compilation of firsthand accounts of the Normandy invasion presents forty remarkable oral histories that recount the events and experiences of D-Day from the perspectives of the veterans themselves, accompanied by a selection of interviews on CD
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0742/2003115133-b.html
ER  -