D-Day Through French Eyes: Normandy 1944
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Like big black umbrellas, they rain down on the fields across the
way, and then disappear behind the black line of the hedges. Silent
parachutes dotting the night sky--that's how one woman in Normandy
in June of 1944 learned that the D-Day invasion was under way.
Though they yearned for liberation, the French in Normandy
nonetheless had to steel themselves for war, knowing that their
homes and land and fellow citizens would have to bear the brunt of
the attack. Already battered by years of Nazi occupation, they knew
they had one more trial to undergo even as freedom beckoned. With
D-Day through French Eyes, Mary Louise Roberts turns the usual
stories of D-Day around, taking readers across the Channel to view
the invasion anew. Roberts builds her history from an impressive
range of gripping first-person accounts of the invasion as seen by
French citizens throughout the region. A farm family notices that
cabbage is missing from their garden--then discovers that the
guilty culprits are American paratroopers hiding in the cowshed.
Fishermen rescue pilots from the wreck of their B-17, only to
struggle to find clothes big enough to disguise them as civilians.
A young man learns how to estimate the altitude of bombers and to
determine whether a bomb was whistling overhead or silently headed
straight for them. In small towns across Normandy, civilians hid
wounded paratroopers, often at the risk of their own lives. When
the allied infantry arrived, they guided soldiers to hidden paths
and little-known bridges, giving them crucial advantages over the
German occupiers. Through story after story, Roberts builds up an
unprecedented picture of the face of battle as seen by grateful, if
worried, civilians. As she did in her acclaimed account of GIs in
postwar France, What Soldiers Do, Roberts here reinvigorates and
reinvents a story we thought we knew. The result is a fresh
perspective on the heroism, sacrifice, and achievement of D-Day.
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