Del Norte Public Library

Covers the period from the Treaty of Versailles to Churchill's appointment as Prime Minister in 1940.

THE FINAL VOLUME IN CHURCHILL'S HISTORY OF THE WAR, BEGINNING WITH D-DAY 1944. IT INCLUDES AN APPRAISAL OF F.D.R. DESCRIPTIONS OF YALTA AND THE POTSDAM CONFERENCE AND THE BRITISH ELECTIONS OF 1945.

A fictional account of D-Day and the Allied invasion of Europe chronicles the events of the World War II campaign and the personalities who took part, from the ordinary soldiers on the land and in the air, to such leaders as Dwight Eisenhower, George Patton, and Omar Bradley, as their efforts changed the course of the war.

Firmly straddling the ground between war novel and military history, the conclusion to Shaara's WWII European theater series contains the usual mix of real life military leaders and fictional soldiers in combat, recapitulating the last five months of the war, from the Battle of the Bulge to the liberation of concentration camps. Shaara's real-life figures (generals Dwight D. Eisenhower and George S. Patton, Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt) mostly...