- Nonfiction, World War, 1939-1945, Soldiers, American Personal narratives
"In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of Europe that marked the beginning of the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.
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Earnest, nostalgic, epic and resolved.
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Tom Brokaw
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 412
- Publisher
- Random House, Dell Publishing, Published by Random House Large Print in association with Random House
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780613371780
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“In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of Europe that marked the beginning of the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.”
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