Ebook Soldier Sailor Frogman Spy Airman Gangster Kill or Die How the Allies Won on DDay Audible Audio Edition Giles Milton Macmillan Audio Books

Product details Audible Audiobook Listening Length 15 hours and 48 minutes Program Type Audiobook Version Unabridged Publisher Macmillan Audio Audible.com Release Date March 12, 2019 Language English, English ASIN B07KRHJR9Q

Soldier Sailor Frogman Spy Airman Gangster Kill or Die How the Allies Won on DDay Audible Audio Edition Giles Milton Macmillan Audio Books Reviews

• I've loved the author's previous books and was excited to read this one, as WW2 is an interest of mine. I was taken aback by a few negative reviews and my excitement waned, but decided to give it a shot. Words cannot describe how amazing this narrative non-fiction masterpiece is.
  
  The author masterfully drops you right into the heart of the action with the utmost care for detail without being tedious or boring. I couldn't put the book down. I felt as if I was right there fighting side by side with these heroic individuals. He also describes in detail, the unique personalities of those involved, and leaves you encouraging them on, and grieving their deaths along the way.
  
  Milton accounts all sides of the action at Normandy; German, French, Canadian, British, and American, soldier, and civilian alike.
  
  I would dare say this is ultimate in D-day accounts. I'm not sure what would impress the writers of the negative reviews of this book. It should go down as one of finest WW2 accounts that has ever been written. What an amazing effort by the author. One of the best writers out there. This book should be a must read for history classes all over the world. Read this book!
• On June 6th, 1944, thousands of Allied soldiers, supported by hundreds of ships and thousands of aircraft, stormed the beaches at Normandy. In this fine book, author Giles Milton describes the events of that fateful first day.
  
  Heading into the beaches well before sunrise, the American, British, and Canadian soldiers rode in their landing craft while facing murderous fire from the Germans on the shore. The Americans landed at Utah and Omaha, while the British and Canadians landed on Gold, Juno, and Sword.
  
  Many men didn't reach the beach; cut down by the German fire. Vehicles foundered, too. But the ones who did make it to shore slowly began to take the fight to the Germans. Casualties were high on both sides. Heroes emerged and led the Allied forces slowly inward.
  
  June 6th was just the beginning, for the battles in France raged until the end of the war, almost a year later. But these men who landed on that fateful June day were the tip of the spear. Without the efforts of these men, the invasion might have not been successful.
  
  "Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy" is a well-written and well-researched book about the first 24 hours of the invasion of Europe. Many individuals who fought there lend their voices to the narrative. Countless tales of heroism are told, especially the story of the taking of Pointe-Du-Hoc, along with many individual acts of heroism. The book reads like an action novel and accurately tells the story of the brave young men who laid down their lives so that Europe could be liberated. Highly recommended.
• This is one of the most complete accounts of D-Day & how the allies won (& how the Germans lost ) a great deal of which is told in their own words.
• The history of D Day from a personal point of view on both sides of the invasion. The commando captured by the Germans scouting Omaha Bbeaches defenses and his meeting with Rommel, the young lady in a German communication bunker, he equivalent in Portsmouth, a German private, US and English soldiers and others.
• Perhaps the best book I have read about D-Day. I could not put it down.
• To this author, everything is a Mortor.
• My attention was riveted on the title. Frogmen! Spies! Thanks go to Net Galley and Henry Holt for the galley, which I expected to love. Though I am disappointed, I would have been more so had I paid the cover price for this fast-and-loose pop history.
  
  The author takes the events surrounding D-Day, the massive attack that turned the tide of World War II, and recounts them from the perspectives of those that were there, both on the Allied side as well as on the Germans’. Though the narrative flows in a congenial tone, it represents a smallish amount of research stretched and padded, and the result is a smattering of important information that’s already been conveyed in a million other sources, most of which he doesn’t cite, and a great deal of trivial information provided by bystanders, which he does.
  
  So there is the research—or mostly, there isn’t. The author draws to some extent upon stories garnered through his German wife’s family, but a lot of it comes across as the sort of long-winded recounting that causes even loving family members to inch toward their coats and make noises about how late it’s getting to be. Long passages of direct quotations pass without a citation, and then later there are citations, but they aren’t well integrated, and almost nothing has more than a single source provided. In other words, it’s sketchy stuff that cannot pass muster.
  
  In all fairness, I have to admit that it’s bad luck on the author’s part to have his work released so soon after Spearhead, which is brilliant and meticulously documented. On the other hand, this is no debut, and though I haven’t read the author’s other work, I can’t imagine that he doesn’t know he’s cut corners here.
  
  Then there’s the other thing, an elephant in the room that isn’t entirely this author’s fault. Why is it that when a war ends and enmities cool, the folks that are invited back into the fold by the UK and USA are always Caucasians? Brits and Americans wax sentimental now alongside Germans, none of whom belonged to families that liked the Fascists, yet the Japanese fighters of World War II never make it back into the family, so to speak. And in this Milton has a vast amount of company, but this is where it is most obvious, so this is where I’ll mention it.
  
  So there it is. It’s for sale now if you still want it.