Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy: How the Allies Won on D-Day

Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy: How the Allies Won on D-Day

by Giles Milton
Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy: How the Allies Won on D-Day

Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy: How the Allies Won on D-Day

by Giles Milton

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Overview

The international bestselling historian and host of the Unknown History podcast presents a ground-breaking account of the first 24 hours of the D-Day invasion told by a symphony of incredible accounts of unknown and unheralded members of the Allied—and Axis—forces.

More than seventy-five years have passed since D-Day, the greatest seaborne invasion in history. The outcome of the Second World War hung in the balance on that chill June morning. If Allied forces succeeded in gaining a foothold in northern France, the road to victory would be open. But if the Allies could be driven back into the sea, the invasion would be stalled for years, perhaps forever.

An epic battle that involved 156,000 men, 7,000 ships and 20,000 armored vehicles, the desperate struggle that unfolded on June 6th, 1944 was, above all, a story of individual heroics—of men who were driven to keep fighting until the German defenses were smashed and the precarious beachheads secured. This authentic human story—Allied, German, French—has never fully been told.

Giles Milton’s bold new history narrates the day’s events through the tales of survivors from all sides: the teenage Allied conscript, the crack German defender, the French resistance fighter. From the military architects at Supreme Headquarters to the young schoolboy in the Wehrmacht’s bunkers, Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy lays bare the absolute terror of those trapped in the front line of Operation Overlord. It also gives voice to those who have hitherto remained unheard—the French butcher’s daughter, the Panzer Commander’s wife, the chauffeur to the General Staff.

This vast canvas of human bravado reveals “the longest day” as never before—less as a masterpiece of strategic planning than a day on which thousands of scared young men found themselves staring death in the face. It is drawn in its entirety from the raw, unvarnished experiences of those who were there.

Includes Maps and Black-and-White Photographs


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781250134936
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 06/01/2021
Pages: 512
Sales rank: 1,013,677
Product dimensions: 5.49(w) x 8.21(h) x 1.15(d)

About the Author

Giles Milton is the internationally bestselling author of a dozen works of narrative history, including Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die: How the Allies Won on D-Day. His book, Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, is the basis for a major TV series. Milton’s other workspublished in twenty-five languagesinclude Nathaniel’s Nutmeg, serialized by the BBC. He lives in London and Burgundy.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS


Maps

Preface
Prologue

PART I: KNOW THY ENEMY
1. Behind Enemy Lines
2. Atlantic Wall
3. The Weather Report
4. Codebreaking

PART II: MIDNIGHT
5. The Midnight Hour
6. At German Headquarters
7. Landing by Moonlight

PART III: THE NIGHT
8. Sainte-Mère-Église
9. Night Assault
10. First Light

PART IV: DAWN
11. On Utah Beach
12. In Coastal Waters
13. Omaha
14. Easy Red

PART V: FOOTHOLD
15. Gold
16. Juno
17. Cliff-top Guns
18. The Mad Bastard

PART VI: TOWARDS NOON
19. Deadlock on Omaha
20. Cracks in the Wall
21. Race to the Bridge

PART VII: AFTERNOON
22. The Bombing of Caen
23. Counter-Attack
24. Victory at Omaha

PART VIII: WIN OR LOSE
25. Frontier Fighting
26. Panzer Attack
27. Twilight
28. Night

Afterword

Acknowledgements
Notes and Sources
Bibliography
Index

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