A PERSPECTIVES FLIP BOOK The Split History of the D DAY INVASION ALLIES PERSPECTIVE BY MICHAEL BURGAN CONTENT CONSULTANT G Kurt Piehler PhD Associate Professor of History Director Institute on World War and the Human Experience Florida State University COMPASS POINT BOOKS a capstone imprint
TABLE OF CONTENTS COVER ALLIES PERSPECTIVE CHAPTER 1 PLANNING AN INVASION CHAPTER 2 APPROACHING D DAY CHAPTER 3 INVADING NORMANDY CHAPTER 4 AFTER D DAY INDEX GERMAN PERSPECTIVE CHAPTER 1 DEFENDING OCCUPIED LAND CHAPTER 2 PREPARING FOR THE INVASION CHAPTER 3 THE ENEMY ARRIVES CHAPTER 4 THE DIRECTION OF HISTORY INDEX ABOUT THE AUTHOR SOURCE NOTES GLOSSARY INTERNET SITES TIMELINE SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY FURTHER READING CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS COPYRIGHT BACK COVER
CHAPTER 1 PLANNING AN INVASION With a storm tossing the seas a tiny British submarine came to the water's surface off the coast of Normandy France It was late evening on June 5 1944 and the minisub's five man crew was tuning its radio to receive a coded message The sub called X23 was so small that the men had to take turns sleeping in its two bunks They also worried if the bottles of oxygen that helped keep them alive would last until they completed their mission The sailors
