Sword: D-Day - Trial by Battle - Max Hastings

Category: Adults, History, Military
Language: English
Keywords: D-Day WW2

Written by Max Hastings
Read by John Hopkins
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

On 6 June 1944 when the Allied armies landed on D-Day, the Second World War had already lasted almost five years. Yet many of the British and American troops who invaded Normandy were virgin soldiers, never before committed to battle. They quit England in summertime to face within hours a storm of machine-gun and mortar fire. They witnessed scenes, above all of sudden death, such as no exercise had prepared them for.