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Ten Days to D-Day: Citizens and Soldiers on the Eve of the Invasion

David A.T. Stafford

Paperback | Pages: 416 pages

Rating: 3.86 | 139 Users | 22 Reviews

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Original Title:	Ten Days To D-Day: Citizens and soldiers on the Eve of the Invasion
ISBN:	0306814226 (ISBN13: 9780306814228)
Edition Language:	English

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Ten days before the largest operation of World War II was launched, it was still one of the century's best-kept secrets—thanks to countless ordinary people participating in one of history's most remarkable moments. David Stafford has written a riveting account of ten of those ordinary men and women—including an American paratrooper, a German soldier, a nineteen-year-old English woman working on secret codes, a Parisian Jew in hiding, and a daring French resistance cell—as they lived through ten very extraordinary days. Drawing on previously unpublished diaries and letters, Stafford gives readers a fresh point of entry into one of the most significant battles ever fought.Ten Days to D-Day buzzes with the pace of a novel, as Stafford moves from country to country, from character to character, including some of D-Day's leaders: Hitler, Rommel, Eisenhower, and Churchill. Stafford compellingly brings to life the final days before the invasion through the eyes of its participants, the citizens and soldiers that made history on June 6, 1944.

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Title	:	Ten Days to D-Day: Citizens and Soldiers on the Eve of the Invasion
Author	:	David A.T. Stafford
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 416 pages
Published	:	May 25th 2005 by Da Capo Press (first published 1999)
Categories	:	History. Nonfiction. War. World War II. Military. Military History

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This book gave a most interesting, different perspective on D-Day. Following many participants' experiences throughout the ten days leading up to D-Day including Eishenhower, Churchill, Hitler, and Rommel, to name a few. A most fascinating take on D-Day that I would definitely recommend if you have an interest in the subject.

David Alexander Tetlow Stafford is projects director at Edinburgh University's Centre for the Study of the Two World Wars and Leverhulme Emeritus Professor in the University's School of History, Classics and Archaeology.Stafford took his B.A. at Downing College, Cambridge in 1963. He then undertook postgraduate study at the University of London, taking an M.A. and finally his Ph.D. in history in

The iconography or, to be more accurate, the cinematography of the Normandy invasion is so compelling that it threatens to drown out all other discussion of the battle. The Airborne divisions, huddled aboard flimsy cargo planes, waiting to jump into the heart of darkness. German troopers in coastline bunkers, marveling at the line of ships, spreading across the horizon. Soaking-wet infantrymen going once more into the breach at the Omaha landing. The Rangers assaulting the guns of Pointe du

Stafford has brought this climatic event and familiar history down to earth by personalizing it. He uses diaries and recollections of all manner of people involved: lowly cypher clerks, spies, Resistance fighters, infantrymen, dictators, prime ministers and military commanders on all sides of the conflict to bring a human dimension to the battle. Particularly interesting are the disagreements between iconic and heroic figures (eg. Churchill, De Gaulle and Roosevelt). Their petty squabbles led

really good, really long, but really interesting

This is not so much a war book as a book about people in or touched by war, not so much a book about D-Day as a book chronicling the activities of a handful of individuals who in one way or another made D-Day. Author Stafford chose his cast well: men and women; Allied and German; civilian, military, and resistance. The chapter a day formula worked well, and will lend itself to someone elses attempt to read the book in the 10 days running up to the next D-Day commemoration. There are great

Outstanding.