D-day: June 6, 1944 : The Climactic Battle Of Wwii
- Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
- Narrator: Jesse Boggs
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Duration: 13:29:50
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
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D Day 36 Chapter 15b
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D Day 37 Chapter 16a
Duration: 26min -
D Day 38 Chapter 16b
Duration: 28min -
D Day 39 Chapter 16c
Duration: 19min -
D Day 40 Chapter 17a
Duration: 16min -
D Day 41 Chapter 17b
Duration: 25min -
D Day 42 Chapter 17c
Duration: 23min -
D Day 43 Chapter 18a
Duration: 21min -
D Day 44 Chapter 18b
Duration: 19min -
D Day 45 Chapter 19a
Duration: 29min -
D Day 46 Chapter 19b
Duration: 26min -
D Day 47 Chapter 20a
Duration: 26min -
D Day 48 Chapter 20b
Duration: 20min -
D Day 49 Chapter 21a
Duration: 28min -
D Day 50 Chapter 21b
Duration: 26min -
D Day 51 Chapter 22a
Duration: 22min -
D Day 52 Chapter 22b
Duration: 21min -
D Day 53 Chapter 23a
Duration: 23min -
D Day 54 Chapter 23b
Duration: 20min -
D Day 55 Chapter 24a
Duration: 27min