Omaha Beach
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Omaha Beach

D-Day, June 6, 1944

  1. 444 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Omaha Beach

D-Day, June 6, 1944

About this book

Includes maps, photos, and firsthand accounts of participants: "There is no better book on this vital chapter in American history." —Terry Copp, author of  Fields of Fire
 
Combining the personal recollections of soldiers with historical narrative and analysis of the actual invasion as it unfolded, this detailed description of the action at Omaha Beach during the Normandy invasion of World War II comes from "the top living D-Day historian" ( USA Today).
 
"Anyone who wants to know anything about Omaha Beach, where the fighting was heaviest and bloodiest, must begin with this foundational book…The research is unparalleled and comprehensive enough to satisfy even the most skeptical scholar, yet the story is absorbing. The carnage of Omaha Beach comes to life with vivid contemporary descriptions from participants and witnesses, while the whole tale is deftly steered along by Balkoski's steady narration and his sense of the battle's larger significance. 'History can provide at least a little solace that there was some meaning to it all,' he writes movingly. 'D-Day was the decisive chapter of a twentieth century  Iliad.' Indeed it was—and Balkoski is its Homer." — The Wall Street Journal
 
"Balkoski makes officer and enlisted-men's first-person testimony the center of this account." — Publishers Weekly
 
"Intensely researched and definitive." — Army magazine
 
"Balkoski's depiction of 'Bloody Omaha' is the literary accompaniment to the white-knuckle Omaha Beach scene that opens Steven Spielberg's  Saving Private Ryan." — The New York Post
 
"The best D-Day-related book I have read." — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Information

Publisher
Stackpole Books
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9780811733762
eBook ISBN
9780811741194
Subtopic
Military & Maritime History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Front Matter
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Chapter 1: The End of the Beginning
  7. Chapter 2: Realism, Not Pessimism
  8. Chapter 3: Festung Europa
  9. Chapter 4: Fortune Favors the Bold
  10. Chapter 5: The Greatest Show on Earth
  11. Chapter 6: Forlorn Hope
  12. Chapter 7: The Momentous Now
  13. Chapter 8: Clear the Way
  14. Chapter 9: Bullets like Rain
  15. Chapter 10: Move or Die
  16. Chapter 11: Everyone an Infantryman
  17. Chapter 12: Beyond the Beach
  18. Chapter 13: A Full Measure of Devotion
  19. Chapter 14: To Rest or to Die
  20. Appendix I: Allied Casualties on Omaha Beach, June 6, 1944
  21. Appendix II: Medal of Honor and Distinguished Service Cross Awards for Valor on Omaha Beach
  22. Appendix III: U.S. Army and U.S. Navy First-Wave Units on Omaha Beach
  23. Appendix IV: Composition of Typical Assault Boat Team, 16th and 116th Infantry
  24. Appendix V: Uniform and Equipment of Boat Team Leader, 16th and 116th Infantry
  25. Notes
  26. Bibliography
  27. Acknowledgments
  28. Index
  29. Back Cover