Ten Days to D-Day: Citizens and Soldiers on the Eve of the Invasion

Ten days before the largest operation of World War II was launched, it was still one of the century's best-kept secrets — thanks to countless ordinary people participating in one of history's most remarkable moments. David Stafford has written a riveting account of ten of those ordinary men and women — including an American paratrooper, a German soldier, a nineteen-year-old English woman working on secret codes, a Parisian Jew in hiding, and a daring French resistance cell — as they lived t...