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Normandy The Sailors’ Story
Author: Nick Hewitt Publisher: Yale University Press Price: £20 (Hardback) Released: Out now A vast body of work has been published on the subject of D-Day and the various Allied operations involved in the liberation of Western Europe, perhaps most n

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