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The Normandy Landings, the largest amphibious operation the world has ever seen, marked ' the beginning of the end of the Second World War'. Russell Miller's superb book offers a definitive account of 'being alive in 1944, being young, and being at war'. Letter, diaries, memos and dozen of interviews with veterans from all sides recreate the deception plans and dry runs, the desperate German wait behind the Alantic Wall, the disagreement between Allies, the ghastly ordeal of Omaha Beach, Resistance sabotage operations and the first day of battle. Throughout, Russell Miller has enticed from his old soldiers not only astonishingly vivid memories with flashes of heroism and humour. . . these are the true voices of D-Day. '

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'Magnificent every recollection in this book brings something of the s ounds, sights and smells of war. The accumulated effect is like being with the troops, first as they prepare, then as they land shattering a nd exceptionally readable. ' Martin Gilbert, Sunday Express

Russell Miller was born in 1938 in East London. He began his career in journalism at the age of 16, quickly progressed to Fleet Street and became a freelance. While under contract to the Sunday Times magazine, he won four press awards and was voted Writer of the Year by the Society of British Magazine Editors. He is the author of ten previous books, most recently Magnum: Fifty Years at the Front Line of History. He is currently under exclusive contract to write for Night and Day, the Mail on Sunday review.

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