Book description
The Normandy Landings, the largest amphibious operation the world has
ever seen, marked ' the beginning of the end of the Second World War'.
Russell Miller's superb book offers a definitive account of 'being alive
in 1944, being young, and being at war'. Letter, diaries, memos and
dozen of interviews with veterans from all sides recreate the deception
plans and dry runs, the desperate German wait behind the Alantic Wall,
the disagreement between Allies, the ghastly ordeal of Omaha Beach,
Resistance sabotage operations and the first day of battle. Throughout,
Russell Miller has enticed from his old soldiers not only astonishingly
vivid memories with flashes of heroism and humour. . . these are the
true voices of D-Day. ' Russell Miller was born in 1938 in East
London. He began his career in journalism at the age of 16, quickly
progressed to Fleet Street and became a freelance. While under contract
to the
Sunday Times
magazine, he won four press awards and was voted Writer of the Year by
the Society of British Magazine Editors. He is the author of ten
previous books, most recently Magnum: Fifty Years at the Front Line
of History
. He is currently under exclusive contract to write for Night and Day
, the Mail on Sunday
review.
