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Mary Louise Roberts - D-Day Through French Eyes, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

D-Day Through French Eyes

Normandy 1944

Av Mary Louise Roberts

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A gripping account of what it was like to be in the midst of the Norman Invasion on D-Day and immediately afterward.  Silent parachutes dotting the night sky—that’s how one woman in Normandy in June 1944 learned that the D-Day invasion was underway. Though they yearned for liberation, the people of Normandy steeled themselves for further warfare, knowing that their homes, land, and fellow citizens would have to bear the brunt of the attack. In D-Day through French Eyes, Mary Louise Roberts resets our view of the usual stories of that momentous operation, taking readers across the Channel to view the invasion anew. Roberts builds her history from an impressive range of gripping first-person accounts from French citizens, reinvigorating a story we thought we knew. The result is a fresh perspective on the heroism, sacrifice, and achievement of D-Day.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2022-06-03
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
  • Vikt: 340 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 240
  • Förlag: The University of Chicago Press
  • ISBN: 9780226821078
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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.

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"In the great tradition of Studs Terkel and Is Paris Burning?, Mary Louise Roberts uses the diaries and memoirs of French civilians to narrate a history of the French at D-Day that has for too long been occluded by the mythology of the allied landing. Students approaching WWII history for the first time will now be able to go beyond the beachhead and think deeply about the French-American encounter in all its complexity. For the French, liberation meant American heroes--demigods packing Hershey’s chocolate and chouine gomme--and it also meant the destruction of property and the loss of life, the violent end to years of waiting. The switch of point of view from American to French is an exercise in empathy that renews history at the core. What a great idea and what a gripping and artful book!"

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