D-Day Through French Eyes

Collects first-person accounts of the Normandy invasion as seen through the eyes of French citizens, including farmers and fishermen, providing a new perspective on the events of D-Day.

Autorentext

Mary Louise Roberts is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in WWII France.

Klappentext

Though they yearned for liberation, the French in Normandy nonetheless had to steel themselves for war, knowing that their homes and land and fellow citizens would have to bear the brunt of the attack. In this book, the author turns the usual stories of D-Day around, taking readers across the Channel to view the invasion anew.