When the sea came alive : an oral history of D-Day /
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky and Pulitzer Prize finalist for Watergate comes the most up-to-date and complete account of D-Day--the largest seaborne invasion in history and the moment that secured the Allied victory in World War II. D-Day is one of hi...
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New York :
Avid Reader Press,
[2024]
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Part I: A world at war. War begins
- War comes to America
- 1943
- The start of SHAEF
- Crossing the pond
- The American invasion
- Building the Atlantic Wall
- Keeping secrets
- Operation Fortitude
- The Mulberry Plan
- At Slapton Sands
- Exercise Tiger
- The transportation plan
- Picking the date
- Into the sausages
- Keep calm and carry on
- Learning the details
- Spring in Normandy with the Germans
- The D-Day weather forecast
- Part II: The landing. A note on chronology and military terminology
- Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's order of the day
- Paratroopers take off
- Operation Coup de Main
- The 6th airborne arrives in Normandy
- The paratrooper skytrain
- Night in the hedgerows
- Liberation comes to Sainte-Mère-Église
- Neptune rises
- Confusing the enemy
- Ashore in Normandy
- In the air over the beaches
- Heading ashore at Utah
- Naval forces at Utah
- The second wave at Utah
- The rangers at Pointe du Hoc
- Omaha beach
- Into the devil's garden
- Ashore at Omaha
- Getting off Omaha beach
- Afloat off Omaha beach
- Jig sector, Gold beach
- The Green Howards take King sector
- Ashore at Juno
- Sword beach
- The news spreads
- Part III: The end of D-Day. Holding the eastern flank
- The walking wounded
- The Battle of La Fière Bridge
- Afternoon for the Germans
- End of D-Day
- Epilogue.