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Author Name
BOWDEN, Mark ; (Foreword by Stephen E. Ambrose)
Title Our Finest Day: D-Day, June 6, 1944
Binding Hardcover
Book Condition Very Good+
Edition First US Edition
Size 4to 11" - 13" tall; 32 pages
Publisher San Francisco, CA Chronicle Books 2002
ISBN Number
0811830500 / 9780811830508
Seller ID 6313
Spine ends and corners lightly bumped. No dust wrapper, as issued. A very nice copy indeed.; 'Produced in cooperation with the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans, this book uses multicolored text, illustrations, and photographs to create what Bowden calls "an interactive history with removable artifacts." ' 'This vivid, thick-paged picture book is peppered with first-person accounts of the event by journalist A.J. Liebling and other enlisted men. It is 'chock-full of D-Day mementos tucked into ... compartments from Eisenhower's handwritten notes to the troops to a replica of the tag on a grenade pin. Highlights among the texts included in pockets and fake manila envelopes are a disarmingly quaint "Pocket Guide to France," with line drawings and common French phrases on the back; a reproduction of the front page of the New York Times from June 6 with news of the "Great Invasion" in bold letters; and the Operational Orders for the 29th infantry division, stamped "top secret" in red across the top.'; Book will not fit safely in an International Priority Mail envelope.
World War II D-Day Operation Overlord
Price =
12.50 USD
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