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Old 04-04-2014, 11:33 AM   #21
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Originally Posted by AnemicOak View Post
For D-Day specifically here are a few to consider...

The Longest Day - Cornelius Ryan
D-Day - Antony Beevor
D-Day - Stephen Ambrose
Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy - Max Hastings (no eBook AFAIK)
Omaha Beach - Joseph Balkoski
Utah Beach - Joseph Balkoski
Juno Beach Trilogy - Mark Zuehlke

Rick Atkinson has a new D-Day book coming out in May (ahead of the 70th anniversary) that might be of interest.

There's also the US Army's "Green Books" histories of WW2 . One of the titles, Cross-Channel Attack covers D-Day. They can be downloaded free as PDF's, not sure if there are ePub's out there somewhere as well or not.




It would be great if some more of the oldies made it to digital. Some good older stuff has been slowly making it's way to market so I'm hopeful. I'm hoping some WWI titles will be making a digital appearance soon too since August is the 100th anniversary of the start of that conflict.

BTW I'm unfamiliar with Lydell-Hart, you don't mean B.H. Liddell Hart by chance do you? If not can you point me in the right direction?
He's the one. Don't know why I keep wanting to spell it with a y rather than a i. Sometimes you see it hyphenated, sometimes you don't. It probably should be hyphenated since his father's name was Hart and his mother's name was Liddel. (from the old custom of using a hyphenated name when the mother was of a higher birth than the father).

I enjoyed his History of World War II, unfortunately my copy is rather battered now. It's just too thick for the cheap binding.

We are starting to see some WW I books coming out. Max Hastings just came out with Catastrophe 1914: Europe goes to War.
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