TY - BOOK AU - Shaw,Frank AU - Shaw,Frank AU - Shaw,Joan TI - We remember D-Day: powerful and moving true stories from 6 June 1944 SN - 9780091941574 U1 - 940.5421 WE PY - 2014/// PB - Ebury Press KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Campaigns KW - France KW - Normandy KW - Personal narratives, British N1 - Includes index N2 - John Hunter, Parachute Regiment, Northants. Seventy years ago, on 6 June 1944, a great Allied Armada landed on the coast of Normandy. The invasion force launched on D-Day was a size never seen before and never likely to be seen again. 150,000 soldiers, more than 6000 ships and 11,000 combat aircraft took part in the assault. The success of that attack led 11 months later to the final liberation of Europe from a ruthless dictatorship that had threatened to permanently enslave it. In this book we hear from the men and women who were involved in the assault; those who risked their lives for a better future ER -