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D-Day Landings: A Travel Guide to Normandy's Beaches and Battlegrounds: Sites, Museums, Memorials Kindle Edition

by Mary Anne Evans (Author), Alastair McKenzie (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Published to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the military mission that changed World War II, D-Day Landings: a Travel Guide to Normandy’s Beaches and Battlegrounds is Bradt’s new guidebook to visiting beaches, memorials, museums, battlefields and other sites associated with D-Day and the Battle of Normandy (Operation Overlord). A simple-to-follow, portable guide for independent travellers, it will help visitors to explore World War II history.
Written by two experienced travel writers with expertise in France and military history, D-Day Landings is designed for visitors who want to see all or part of Normandy. Covering the ground from the D-Day landing beaches (Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha and Utah) up to the Falaise Gap and Cherbourg, it encompasses both every major site and a host of smaller, less well-known locations – venturing well beyond the coast to include sites associated with the capture of Cherbourg (D+20) and the closing of the Falaise Gap (D+76), which marked the end of the Overlord campaign.

The book is organised geographically in a lawnmower pattern along the landing beaches and then back again through the inland battlefield locations, encouraging readers to explore the less well-known but critically important Battle of Normandy sites. D-Day Landings also uncovers unexpected features such as a ‘concrete panzer’ pillbox topped by a tank turret around which Utah Beach Museum was constructed.

Quirky snippets and human stories abound; learn how Lord Lovat’s Commando Piper Bill saw himself as a ballerina or how the Utah Beach landings were accidentally more successful than planned.

The guidebook has a comprehensive index of the military units mentioned, so that families of veterans, and those with an interest, can quickly and easily find locations that are relevant to them.

Bradt’s D-Day Landings will be an essential tool for planning trips to Normandy, and a companion on the journey itself, for military history enthusiasts, people with family who fought in Normandy and holidaymakers keen to make the most of Northern France.
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    8 Mar. 2024
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Mary Anne Evans has over 35 years' experience writing and editing guidebooks and travel articles. Having started visiting France when she was five, she now owns a house in the Auvergne and runs her own specialist website (Maryannesfrance.com), which outlines suggestions for trips to French regions, previews forthcoming events and offers practical travel advice. Normandy has always been one of her favourite destinations thanks to its proximity, long sandy beaches, great cities and shared history. A visit in 2008 to the newly opened Visitor Centre at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial revealed compelling and emotional stories about ordinary individual soldiers involved in the fighting. It set Evans off on many journeys around the D-Day Landing beaches. New sites like the British Normandy Memorial, which opened in 2021, have revealed fresh insights as she discovers ever more about the history of Operation Overlord.

Alastair McKenzie was a travel editor and presenter in local, national and international radio (Classic FM) for a decade from 1989, before moving online where he became an active member of the travel blogger and content creator community, and a regular speaker at social media travel conferences. A member of the British Guild of Travel Writers since 2002, he now runs a specialist niche blog (mechtraveller.com), which focuses on mechanical, technical and historic points of interest for travellers, including battlefield sites and military museums. Like the Allies, he first came to Normandy as a young man by sea. During the 1980s he sailed and skippered yachts around most of the harbours on the European coast from Holland to Spain, including Ouistreham & Cherbourg. Since then he has explored most of Normandy by land and written about its key D-Day sites.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CTHRXTR1
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bradt Travel Guides Ltd. (8 Mar. 2024)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 41.1 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 281 pages
  • Customer reviews:
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    Alastair McKenzie is a digital travel journalist/blogger with one foot in traditional media and the other in social media. Originally a local and then national/international radio travel presenter & editor with Classic FM, he moved online just before the millennium and has been an active member of the travel blogger & social media community for the last fifteen years, speaking regularly at social travel conferences, events and trade shows. He is a member of the British Guild of Travel Writers and writes a niche blog, Mechtraveller.

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    Mary Anne Evans is an established guidebook writer, journalist and editor. She is a member of the British Guild of Travel Writers and has written about destinations in Europe for numerous magazines and websites including Michelin Green Guides. A longstanding expert on France, she writes for various websites and has contributed sections in Frommer’s guidebooks to the country. She now runs her own specialist website which outlines suggestions for trips to French regions, previews forthcoming events and offers practical travel advice. She has also contributed to Wiley/Frommer’s and Michelin guidebooks covering Belgium, London and Sweden. Between 1986 and 2000, she edited six editions of Gault Millau’s guide to the best of London.

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