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 36 Chapter 15b

    Duration: 22min
  • 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
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