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D-Day: The Sixth Day of June, 1944 by David Howarth, McGraw Hill, 1959
D DAY is the richly detailed, personal account of individual men – American and British – who left England that morning, and of the German defenders and French villagers who met them on chaotic beaches. The soldiers in the book are real people. Most of them lived to tell their stories to the author. Often told in the men’s own words, crowded with revealing human anecdotes, D DAY recreates the terror, the danger, and the heroism.
Howarth was a war correspondent for BBC radio at the start of World War II. Howarth joined the Navy after the fall of France. He served in the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and helped set up the Shetland Bus, an SOE operation manned by Norwegians running a clandestine route between Shetland and Norway. He was second in command at the Naval base in Shetland. For his contributions to espionage operations against the German occupation of Norway, he received King Haakon VII's Cross of Liberty. The King also made Howarth a Chevalier First Class of the Order of St Olav. After the war, he wrote numerous books on naval and military history, including a memoir of the Shetland Bus. He also edited 'My Land and My People', the first autobiography by the 14th Dalai Lama, which was published in 1962.
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