D Day: The Oral History

D Day: The Oral History

By Garrett M Graff

Genre:-Non Fiction/Military History/Oral Cultural History

Pages:-448

Publisher:-Monoray/Octopus

Blurb:- Eighty years on, D-Day The Oral History is a fresh and significant new history of arguably the most important day of the 20th Century.

 On 6th June 1944, the Allied invasion began. For hours, wave after wave of soliders, sailors, and airmen crossed the channel and stormed the Normandy coast, fighting to gain a foothold in Nazi-occupied Northwest Europe.

 It was the largest combined air and seaborne invasion ever, involving over 150,000 Allied troops on the ground, and its eventual success became a critical turning point in the war, spelling the beginning of the end for the Third Reich.

 As the events of the day fade from living memory, it's more important than ever to understand what it felt like to be there and to live through it, on both sides.

 In this definitive work, Garrett M. Graff, the bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky: The Oral History of 9/11, compiles hundreds of US, Canadian, UK, French and German voices to tell the full story of exactly how that historic day unfolded, in visceral detail.

 From paratroopers to fighter pilots to nurses, generals, French villagers, German Defenders to Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt, this is the most intimate re-telling of D-Day published to date.

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My Review:-A book filled with diaries, journals, letters, interviews from those that were there and speeches. The book is set out in three parts, A World at War, The Landing and The End of D-Day, each has chapters relating to the parts it is in. Along with all the writing Garrett has added photos and pictures, Garrett has also included Source Listings, Source Notes, Index and Image Credits. The book begins with the planning for D-Day, which wasn't just a few days before hand, the planning had started well before. I found the book very interesting and at times it does make you think just how those on the front line, especially those in Company A 'Suicide Wave' must of felt. The stories come from Privates to Generals, civilians, as well Germans on the defensive. 

 Coming from a military family on both sides, made me feel so proud of those who were prepared to give their life for others. This is a must read, especially since schools don't include these important events.