Voices of Valor; D-Day: June 6, 1944

New York, N.Y.: Bulfinch Press, 2004. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Good. [8], 185 pages. Oversized volume, measuring 10 inches by 8-1/4 inches. 116 b/w photographs. Includes two Audio Recordings, with oral histories from D-Day veterans which correspond to chapters in the book, bound in front of the front free endpaper. Book includes endpaper maps at the front and back. Includes chapters on The Call to Arms and Gathering for D-Day; Launching the Attack; The Battlefield Isolated: Help from the Resistance and the SO; Dropping from the Skies: The British Attack on the East Flank; Over the Atlantic Wall; The American Airborne Drop on the Cotentin Peninsula; Crossing the Channel: The Air and Sea Armadas; Utah Beach; The Rangers at the Pointe; The 16th Regiment at Omaha Beach; The 116th Regiment: Into the Jaws of Hell; The British 2nd Army, at Gold, Juno, and Sword Beaches; and The Aftermath. Also includes Illustrations, Epilogue, Acknowledgments, Glossary, and Photo Credits. Douglas Brinkley (born December 14, 1960) is an American author, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and professor of history at Rice University. Brinkley is the history commentator for CNN, and a contributing editor to the magazine Vanity Fair. He is a public spokesperson on conservation issues. He joined the faculty of Rice University as a professor of history in 2007. Brinkley worked closely with his mentor, historian Stephen E. Ambrose, then director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies at the University of New Orleans. Ambrose chose Brinkley to become director of the Eisenhower Center, a post he held for five years before moving to Tulane University. Ron Drez is a decorated combat veteran of the Vietnam War and a former Captain of Marines. He is an award-winning, best-selling author and commander. He is President of Stephen Ambrose Historical Tours having served both as friend and associate of the distinguished, late historian. With personal and historical photographs, and a text by two leading historians, this book is both a captivating history and a stirring tribute to the men who served their country and the world so bravely on D-Day. Experience the history of D-Day through the words and recorded voices of those who were there -- the servicemen who risked their lives for the protection of freedom and democracy. With two sixty-minute audio CDs of veteran testimonies, personal and historical photographs, and a text by two leading historians, Voices of Valor is both a captivating history and a stirring tribute to the men who served their country and the world so bravely that day. Voices of Valor: D-Day: June 6, 1944 is an intimate and lasting tribute to the soldiers who fought in one of the most important battles of the twentieth century. It includes two hourlong audio CDs -- 120 minutes in all -- that allow us to hear the veterans' own voices as they recount what they experienced at Normandy. These accounts are drawn from the Peter S. Kalikow World War II Oral History Project conducted by the Eisenhower Center for American Studies at the University of New Orleans, and now curated by the National D-Day Museum. The text of Voices of Valor -- written by acclaimed historian and popular on-air consultant Douglas Brinkley and decorated Vietnam veteran and D-Day expert Ronald J. Drez -- is based on those oral testimonies and weaves a captivating narrative of that dramatic day. D-Day -- June 6, 1944 -- has been rightly called a pivotal moment in the twentieth century. With the fate of World War II hanging in the balance, 150,000 Allied soldiers took part in the largest air, land, and sea operation ever attempted. Five thousand Allied servicemen died that day, but D-Day's success proved to be the decisive turning point of the war. Less than a year later, Hitler and his regime fell. This unique multimedia history of the invasion brings the veterans' stories to life as never before.