Reddit reviews D-Day: The Battle for Normandy
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We found 6 Reddit comments about D-Day: The Battle for Normandy. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
D-Dayis well worth a read too..
I was reading D-Day: Battle Normandy by Antony Beevor last night, where he claims that paratroopers were issued with condoms, but a Catholic padre preached something about going into battle carrying tools of sin and immorality, so many threw them away. Not sure how much truth there is to this passage but if true, I'm sure it wouldn't have helped!
Ambrose can be a bit unreliable; I cannot recommend more highly Antony Beevor's "D-Day"
The Battle for Spain by Anthony Beevor is considered the definitive, modern single volume history of this conflict.
Beevor is renowned for his justifiably famous books Stalingrad, D-Day and The Fall of Berlin.
This is a great book on D-Day by Antony Beevor. It really does an excellent job of explaining some of the missteps that happened prior to the soldiers landing on Omaha (tanks never making it, fog detering accurate bombing runs etc.)
I thought you were significantly aware of the subject that referencing general sites regarding common knowledge was sufficient.
Look into Operation Gomorrah. I didn't know you were very new to this topic, or I would have pointed you somewhere more academic.
http://books.google.ca/books?id=LZ99c7ZlxxQC&hl=en
One single operation left 1 million civilians homeless, and 50,000 dead.
Not to mention the city of Caen. Check that one out, right after D-Day. No military targets at all.
http://www.amazon.ca/D-Day-Battle-Normandy-Antony-Beevor/dp/0143118188