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Collectable Books On the Shelf
These three books were written about D-Day just 25 years after the event
These three books covering D-Day are part of an 100+ series of texts about World War Two publiched by McDonald & Co in the UK and Ballantine Books in the US
What makes these three books different to the many others about D-Day – is that two of them were written by people who were there. All are part of a huge late 1960s series that was published in the UK by McDonald and Co, although confusingly they were printed and bound by Purnell &
Sons Ltd and published in conjunction with the Imperial War Museum. That 100+ series of books were reviewed here a couple of years ago, but these three have been selected simply as books that relate to the Normandy campaign of 1944.
Chronologically, the first is D-Day:
