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COMMENTS ABOUT THE BOOK , D-DAY, BY STEPHEN AMBROSE

By valeri On August 14, 2010 No Comments

[01]     Stephen E. Ambrose was in Whitewater, Wis., on D-Day, and his father in the Pacific. He was 10 years old and collected cans for fun at that time. In 1964, he was a Civil War historian, and got a call from General Eisenhower, who asked him to write his biography, having seen Ambrose has written Civil War books before, and for him, it should be very difficult to do so, without being interested in D-Day 01.

The D-Day book we've read is a 754 page-translation, in Portuguese, portraits the essential facts, that took place in Europe, referring to several different perspectives of the great battle of the World War II, written for those who were part of the history, and were born during the false prosperity of the 20’s, raised in the tough reality of depression extended to the 30’s. In the author’s opinion, they were the soldiers of

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D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor – The Dark Historical Anecdote

By valeri On July 15, 2010 No Comments

Antony Beevor is the renowned author of Stalingrad, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature, and Berlin, which received the first Longman-History Today Trustees’ Award. Antony is also known as a master of narrative, expertly blending the grand sweep with the telling anecdote.

D-Day: The Battle for Normandy” is another historical narration of the War by the author Antony where the Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever is been brought out in a dramatic, exciting, well-paced and lucid manner. The very scale of the undertaking and the meticulous planning were unparallel, but although the beachheads were established, it soon became clear that the next stage of the battle would be far more difficult than anyone had imagined.

The thick hedgerows of Normandy were ideal for the defender and the

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