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Language
English
Description
"Beginning in the predawn darkness of June 6, 1944, The First Wave follows the remarkable men who carried out D-Day's most perilous missions. The charismatic, unforgettable cast includes the first American paratrooper to touch down on Normandy soil; the British glider pilot who braved antiaircraft fire to crash-land mere yards from the vital Pegasus Bridge; the Canadian brothers who led their troops onto Juno Beach under withering fire; as well as...
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Publisher
NAL Caliber
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xxv, 374 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"On April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide in a bunker in Berlin. But victory over the Nazi regime was not celebrated in western Europe until May 8, and in Russia a day later, on the ninth. Why did a peace agreement take so much time? How did this brutal, protracted conflict coalesce into its unlikely endgame? 'After Hitler' shines a light on ten fascinating days after that infamous suicide that changed the course of the twentieth century....