Ten Days to D-Day: Countdown to the Liberation of Europe D-Day,
6th June 1944, was the climactic battle of the Second World War.
Allied triumph was anything but inevitable - there was
everything to play for ... Show synopsis D-Day, 6th June 1944,
was the climactic battle of the Second World War. Allied triumph
was anything but inevitable - there was everything to play for
and everything to lose. The story of the actual landings has
been told and re-told many times, but no one has actually
revealed the part that fate, human error, political infighting,
deception and double agents played in the crucial ten days
before the landings. David Stafford's compelling narrative,
climaxing on the eve of D-Day, gives a day-by-day account of the
untold human story behind this momentous event from both the
Allied and Nazi perspectives. Stafford focuses on twelve very
different human narratives - not only those of Hitler,
Eisenhower, Montgomery, Churchill and Rommel, but of an American
paratrooper; a Canadian infantryman; a