D-Day (Turning Points, 19)
“Ideal for tucking into a day-pack for tours of Normandy’s history-laden beaches." —USA Today
Martin Gilbert offers fresh information on the Allies’ use of double agents and phantom armies to fool Hitler and his generals into believing that the Normandy landings were a mere diversion to mask a far larger assault elsewhere. He reveals how British codebreakers provided astonishingly accurate information on German strategy and troop movements, and, with twenty-seven new maps and vivid, firsthand British, American, and Canadian accounts of the horror and heroism of D-Day, Gilbert sheds new light on one of the greatest achievements in military history.
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Book details
- Author
- Martin Gilbert
- Imprint
- Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 240
- Formats
- Paperback
- Series
- Turning Points in History
- Subjects
- History › Wars & Conflicts › World War II
- Topics
- Normandy invasion · World War II · military deception · codebreaking · Allied forces · 20th century history
- ISBN-13
- 9780470373019
About the author
MARTIN GILBERT was a British historian and the author of more than 88 books, including works on the Holocaust, Jewish history, and both World Wars. He wrote six of the eight volumes of the official Winston Churchill biography.
Gilbert was knighted in 1995 for services to British history and international relations. In 1999 the University of Oxford awarded him a Doctorate of Literature for the totality of his published work. He was a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford from 1962 and an Honorary Fellow from 1994.
Gilbert died on February 3, 2015, at age 78.