D-Day: History in an Hour
Written by Rupert Colley
Narrated by Jonathan Keeble
4.5/5
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Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.
Midnight, Tuesday 6 June 1944: the beginning of D-Day, the operation to invade Nazi-occupied Western Europe and initiate the final phase of World War II. A vast undertaking, it involved 12,000 aircraft and an amphibious assault of almost 7,000 vessels. 160,000 troops would cross the English Channel during Operation Overlord, paving the way for more than three million allied troops to enter France by the end of August 1944.
Forces from the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, the Free French and Poland all heavily participated, alongside contingents from Belgium, Greece, the Netherlands, and Norway, They capitalised on the element of surprise achieved due to bad weather and the success of Operation Bodyguard – a feat of massive deception to convince Hitler that the landings would hit Pas-de-Calais. In just over a year, the war would be won. ‘D-Day: History in an Hour’ is the story of how the largest military operation in history had been planned, practised and executed.
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour…
Rupert Colley
Rupert Colley was a librarian in Enfield for 22 years until September 2011. A history graduate, he launched the original History In An Hour in 2009 with a website, blog and ‘World War Two In An Hour’ as an iPhone app. He then expanded it to Kindle, iBooks and into the USA with a series of titles, and enlisted new writers by encouraging guest bloggers on the website. History In An Hour was acquired by HarperCollins in 2011.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A very good, information packed 90 minutes. Recommended. Well done
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One can feel the said words and Clarity is Amazing .
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Amazingly detailed for an hour and a half's listening! D-day itself only takes up a small part of the book, but the training and preparation is covered in great detail, with a summary of the battle of normandy and the rest if WW2 following. I was surprised by how much information i learned, and I'm not a newcomer to WW2 history. Why not try it?