D-day: June 6, 1944 : The Climactic Battle Of Wwii

  • Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
  • Narrator: Jesse Boggs
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 13:29:50
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Synopsis

Stephen E. Ambrose’s D-Day is the definitive history of World War II’s most pivotal battle, a day that changed the course of history.

D-Day is the epic story of men at the most demanding moment of their lives, when the horrors, complexities, and triumphs of life are laid bare. Distinguished historian Stephen E. Ambrose portrays the faces of courage and heroism, fear and determination—what Eisenhower called “the fury of an aroused democracy”—that shaped the victory of the citizen soldiers whom Hitler had disparaged.Drawing on more than 1,400 interviews with American, British, Canadian, French, and German veterans, Ambrose reveals how the original plans for the invasion had to be abandoned, and how enlisted men and junior officers acted on their own initiative when they realized that nothing was as they were told it would be.

The action begins at midnight, June 5/6, when the first British and American airborne troops jumped into France. It ends at midnight June 6/7. Focusing on those pivotal twenty-four hours, it moves from the level of Supreme Commander to that of a French child, from General Omar Bradley to an American paratrooper, from Field Marshal Montgomery to a German sergeant.

Ambrose’s D-Day is the finest account of one of our history’s most important days.

Chapters

  • D Day 56 Chapter 24b

    Duration: 25min
  • D Day 57 Chapter 25a

    Duration: 20min
  • D Day 58 Chapter 25b

    Duration: 18min
  • D Day 59 Chapter 26a

    Duration: 17min
  • D Day 60 Chapter 26b

    Duration: 23min
  • D Day 61 Chapter 26c

    Duration: 21min
  • D Day 62 Chapter 27

    Duration: 28min
  • D Day 63 Chapter 28a

    Duration: 18min
  • D Day 64 Chapter 28b

    Duration: 13min
  • D Day 65 Chapter 29a

    Duration: 20min
  • D Day 66 Chapter 29b

    Duration: 29min
  • D Day 67 Chapter 30a

    Duration: 23min
  • D Day 68 Chapter 30b

    Duration: 25min
  • D Day 69 Chapter 31

    Duration: 23min
  • D Day 70 Chapter 32

    Duration: 21min
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