Based on interview research with hundreds of battle participants, this archive edition is published to commemorate the 70th anniversary of D-Day in 2014. It features 120 photographs and includes removable facsimile documents from the Cornelius Ryan Archive. It also includes an audio CD featuring the[...]
The Battle of Arnhem, one of the most dramatic battles of World War II, was as daring as it was ill-fated. It cost the Allies nearly twice as many casualties as D-Day. This is the whole compelling story, told through the vast cast of characters involved. From Dutch civilians to British and American [...]
The classic account of the final offensive against Hitler's Third Reich-- newly in print for the 50th anniversary of VE Day. The Battle for Berlin was the culminating struggle of World War II in the European theater, the last offensive against Hitler's Third Reich, which devastated one of Europe's h[...]
June 6, 2014 marks the 70th anniversary of D-Day, when 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany and essentially spur the campaign that would end World War II. Nowhere are the landings at Normandy captured more eloquently and dra[...]
For the 75th anniversary of D-Day, a deluxe collector's edition gathering two gripping masterpieces of military history. Library of America presents two of the best books ever written about World War II in a deluxe collector's edition featuring 88 pages of photographs, full-color endpaper maps, rare[...]
This is the story of D-Day, told through the voices of over 1,000 survivors - from high-ranking Allied and German officers, to the paratroopers who landed in Normandy before dawn, the infantry who struggled ashore and the German troops who defended the coast.[...]
Den längsta dagen var en av de första moderna dokumentära krigsskildringarna, som blandade överblicken med den enskilde soldatens upplevelser. Den 6 juni 1944 var för många av soldaterna som var packade i landstigningsbåtarna på väg mot Normandies kust, just den längsta dagen. För många [...]
I gryningen den 6 juni 1944 styrde den väldigaste flotta, som världen någonsin hade skådat, mot Normandie med drygt 200.000 man ombord.
Cornelius Ryan var med de allierade som krigskorrespondent. Men hans bok återger inte bara vad han själv upplevde utan han har även intervjuat me[...]
En bro för mycket handlar om de allierades förtvivlade kamp om bron vid Arnhem i Holland i september 1944. De allierade skulle bakom de tyska linjerna i en gigantisk operation luftlandsätta 35 000 man. Hur planen misslyckas berättas om i denna spännande och mycket väldokumenterade bok.
En bro för mycket handlar om de allierades förtvivlade kamp om bron vid Arnhem i Holland i september 1944. De allierade skulle bakom de tyska linjerna i en gigantisk operation luftlandsätta 35 000 man. Hur planen misslyckas berättas om i denna spännande och mycket väldokumenterade bok.
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THE CLASSIC ACCOUNT OF THE ALLIED INVASION OF NORMANDY"The Longest Day" is Cornelius Ryan's unsurpassed account of D-Day, a book that endures as a masterpiece of military history. In this compelling tale of courage and heroism, glory and tragedy, Ryan painstakingly recreates the fateful hours that p[...]
THE CLASSIC ACCOUNT OF ONE OF THE MOST DRAMATIC BATTLES OF WORLD WAR II "A Bridge Too Far" is Cornelius Ryan's masterly chronicle of the Battle of Arnhem, which marshalled the greatest armada of troop-carrying aircraft ever assembled and cost the Allies nearly twice as many casualties as D-Day.In th[...]