TY - BOOK AU - Milton,Giles TI - D-Day: the soldiers' story SN - 9781473649019 U1 - 940.5421421 PY - 2018/// CY - London PB - John Murray KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Campaigns KW - France KW - Normandy KW - Personal narratives, British KW - Personal narratives, American KW - Personal narratives, German KW - Personal narratives, French N1 - Prologue -- Part I. Know thy enemy -- Behind enemy lines -- Atlantic wall -- The weather report -- Codebreaking -- Part II. Midnight -- The midnight hour -- At German headquarters -- Landing by moonlight -- Part III. The night -- Sainte-Mère-Église -- Night assault -- First light -- Part IV. Dawn -- On Utah beach -- In coastal waters -- Omaha -- Easy red -- Part V. Foothold -- Gold -- Juno -- Cliff-top guns -- The mad bastard -- Part VI. Towards noon -- Deadlock on Omaha -- Cracks in the wall -- Race to the bridge -- Part VII. Afternoon -- The bombing of Caen -- Counter-attack -- Victory at Omaha -- Part VIII. Win or lose -- Frontier fighting -- Panzer attack -- Twilight --Night -- Afterword ER -