Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944
By Sir Max Hastings
Read by Barnaby Edwards
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1 Format: CD
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$19.99
ISBN: 9781799737520
With an introduction read by Max Hastings. The famous D-Day landings of 6 June, 1944, marked the beginning of Operation Overlord, the battle for the liberation of Europe. Republished as part of the Pan Military Classics series, Max Hastings’ acclaimed account overturns many traditional legends in this memorable study. Drawing together the eyewitness accounts of survivors from both sides, plus a wealth of previously untapped sources and documents, Overlord provides a brilliant, controversial perspective on the devastating battle for Normandy. Max Hastings, author of over 20 books, was born in 1945. He was a scholar at Charterhouse and University College, Oxford, before working as foreign correspondent for newspapers and BBC television, reporting from over 50 countries. He was editor of the Daily Telegraph for almost a decade, and then for six years edited the Evening Standard. He has won many awards for his journalism, particularly for his dispatches from the South Atlantic in 1982. He was knighted in 2002.
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Summary
Summary
With an introduction read by Max Hastings. The famous D-Day landings of 6 June, 1944, marked the beginning of Operation Overlord, the battle for the liberation of Europe.
Republished as part of the Pan Military Classics series, Max Hastings’ acclaimed account overturns many traditional legends in this memorable study. Drawing together the eyewitness accounts of survivors from both sides, plus a wealth of previously untapped sources and documents, Overlord provides a brilliant, controversial perspective on the devastating battle for Normandy. Max Hastings, author of over 20 books, was born in 1945. He was a scholar at Charterhouse and University College, Oxford, before working as foreign correspondent for newspapers and BBC television, reporting from over 50 countries. He was editor of the Daily Telegraph for almost a decade, and then for six years edited the Evening Standard. He has won many awards for his journalism, particularly for his dispatches from the South Atlantic in 1982. He was knighted in 2002.
Author
Author Bio: Sir Max Hastings
Sir Max Hastings is the multiaward-winning author of more than twenty books, most about conflict, and several made the New York Times bestsellers list. He has served as editor-in-chief of the London Daily Telegraph and the Evening Standard. He has won many prizes both for journalism and his books, including the Somerset Maugham Award, the Westminster Medal, and the Pritzker Military Library Literature Award. He chronicles Vietnam with the benefit of vivid personal memories: first of reporting in 1967-68 from the United States and then of successive assignments in Indochina for newspapers and BBC TV. He rode a helicopter out of the US Saigon embassy compound during the 1975 final evacuation.
Details
Details
| Available Formats : | CD |
| Category: | Nonfiction/History |
| Runtime: | 16.19 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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