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Voices of victory : powerful eye-witness accounts of the battle to take Germany, February 1945 to VE Day
Jones, Geraint2025
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Published for the 80th anniversary of VE Day and based on over 150 audio interviews with those who fought their way to victory, this is a compelling and immersive account of a crucial period in the Second World War. February, 1945. Eight months have passed since the D-Day landings, when the Allies gained their foothold in North-West Europe. Since then the British Army has fought near continuously against the German military. Now, they stand ready for their greatest test: the battle for the German homeland. Drawing on the sound archive of the Imperial War Museums, military historian Geraint Jones brings this this often-overlooked period of the war vividly to life in the words of British soldiers who were there, from war-weary men who have survived many months of combat to new recruits facing Hitler's fanatic Panzer divisions for the first time.
Main title:
Imprint:
London : Macmillan, 2025.©2024
Collation:
xiv, 457 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
At foot of title: Imperial War Museums.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781035070046 (hbk)
Dewey class:
940.54213
LC class:
D757
Local class:
940.542
Language:
English
BRN:
4164960