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D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II
by Stephen E. Ambrose
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0671673343
- ISBN 13
- 9780671673345
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Simon & Schuster , 1994 Simon & Schuster, New York. 1994. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light shelfwear to head and tail. DJ: Very Good +; NOT Priced; light bumping to head and tail. Red paper over boards with black cloth overlay on the spine with bright silver lettering on the spine. 655 pp 8vo. This is a brilliant telling of the battles of Omaha and Utah beaches, based on information only now available from American, British, Canadian, French, and German veterans, from government and private archives, from never before utilized sources on the home front, gathered and analyzed by the author, who have made D-Day his life work. This is the epic victory of democracy in this winner-take-all battle. A clean very presentable copy.
Reviews
On Jun 8 2006, Bibliophile said:
Stephen Ambrose has compiled more than 1400 interviews with American, British, Canadian, French and German veterans to create a chronicle of D-Day. Ambrose portrays the faces of courage and heroism, fear and determination - what Eisenhower called "The fury of an aroused Democracy". Ambrose, the Director of the National D- Day Museum has done a comprehensive catalog of the events of that day. What makes it so compelling is that he speaks in the voices of the men who were there. This is not a celebration, a book of ego or pretension this is history related by the men who lived it.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013012
- Title
- D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II
- Author
- Stephen E. Ambrose
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0671673343
- ISBN 13
- 9780671673345
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1994
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- World War II, Utah Beach, Omaha Beach, Juno Beach, Gold Beach, World War II in Europe, Normandy, Operation Overlord, Invasion of Europe, German Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, D-Day, June 6 1944, Field Marshal Rommel, Winston Churchill, democracy, Adolf Hitle
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About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Book Club Edition
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- Cloth
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
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