For the next 4 days Free Kindle Version of Michael B. Butler's History Leading to the 50th Anniversary of D-Day, Book 2: My Journey Thru World & Family History Landed at Omaha Beach, 6/6/94 is available. Containing a wide-range of history ending with the author's unlikely trip to the 50th Anniversary of D-Day at Omaha Beach, the book has 330 pictures, exhibits, maps and other visual aids. This giveaway follows the release of his second World War II War Campaign pictorial book, German 1941-43 War Campaign Pictorials Across Russia on Operation Barbarossa & in North Africa with Rommel's Afrika Korps, which contains over 600 pictures in large book format.
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Table or Contents History Leading to 50th Anniversary of D-Day
PART ONE
Beginnings in Brief
1 Destiny, Combat Conundrums & Sacrifice
2 America's Revolution & Ramifications
3 Arlington National Cemetery & Remembrance
4 Washington, Lincoln & Gettysburg
5 Shrines of Sacrifice & GI Correspondent Ernie Pyle
PART TWO
Origins of European World War II
September 1937 First Hand Snapshot of Nazi Germany & Lesson on Hitler's Mein Kampf from Berlin Diary by War Correspondent William Shirer
6 Historic Roads Lead to Clash of Titans 1939-45
7 Hitler's Readiness, History of Prussian-German General Staff & 1940 Western Campaign
8 With Hitler in the West—Photos from book by Hitler's Photographer Heinrich Hoffman of 1940 German Western Campaign
9 British Spymaster, His Family & European Royals
10 General Alfred C. Wedemeyer: Grand Strategist & Author of 1941 United States Victory Plan
11 Photos of Major Combatants & Commanders
PART THREE
Developments, Combatants, Resources & Battle of Britain
12 Perilous Summer of 1940, Krupp Family of Ruhr Region & Germany's Ancient Cultural Roots
13 Codebreaking, Radar, Organizations, Strategic Oil Supplies & Winston Churchill
14 Preparations for First Total Air Battle in History
15 Churchill's 'Their Finest Hour' Speech & The Battle of Britain
INTERMISSION I
Family War Memorabilia, Unit Histories & Tales of Combat
16 Family Photos & War Memorabilia
17 168th Iowa, 42nd Rainbow Division in WWI with Grandfather Harvey Butler, Douglas MacArthur & William Donovan
18 134th Nebraska, 35th Infantry Division, Patton's Third Army in WWII with Great Uncle Paul Chapman, Omaha Beach July 6, 1944, Normandy to Germany
PART FOUR
Atlantic Sea War & Russian Land War
19 Atlantic Ocean War Commences with Hostilities
20 Strategy & Politics Amidst the Fury of War
21 Hitler Shifts Ambitions East
22 America Enters & Russia Tries to Survive
23 Back to the Atlantic War
24 Turning Points at Stalingrad & Kursk-Orel Salient
INTERMISSION II
More Family Unit Histories & WWII Combat Ops
25 358th Bombing Squadron, Hell's Angels 303rd Bombardment Group., 8th Air Force in WWII with Uncle Roy Larson, B-17 Pilot, March-April 1944
26 5th Armored Victory Div., Patton's Third Army in WWII with Great Uncle Henry Olivas, Utah Beach July 26, 1944, Normandy to Germany
PART FIVE
Getting to the D-Day Landings
27 1944 View from English Channel & Moscow
28 Fighting in Eastern Mediterranean & North Africa
29 Harry Hopkins, Patton, Italian Campaign & D-Day
30 D-Day Planning, Allies, Personalities & Deceptions
PART SIX
D-Day Miracles Then & Plus 50 Years Courtesyof My 50th D-Day Saviors Herbert Johnson, Shelley Tokker and Wanda & Pat Murphy
31 SS Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane, France--Town is a Martyred Memorial to Sacrifice
32 President Reagan's 40th Pointe du Hoc D-Day Speech Transforms D-Day & Our World
33 A Long, Strange Journey for Another Yank
34 Day Before 50 Years Later & June 5, 1944, My 1st D-Day Savior Herbert Johnson's War Story
35 Setting the Stage for D-Day Landings with British Veteran & Historian Alexander McKee
36 D-Day Miracles Plus 50 Years from My 3rd Savior, Pat Murphy, Cherbourg Fighting with Ernie Pyle, Commanders & Planning
37 Pat Murphy's Auto-Bio P-47 War Story with 397th Fighter Squadron, 368th Fighter Group, 9th Air Force, Normandy to POW in Germany
38 Normandy Cemetery, My Curious Walk on Omaha Beach & The Main Ceremony Miracle
PART SEVEN
Epilogues & Afterwords
I Truman, A-Bomb, Post-War & Post Cold War
II 1917-18 Russian Revolution
III History of the German General Staff, 1657-1945 by Walter Goerlitz, Preface by Walter Millis
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Pat Murphy, One of Michael Butler's D-Day Saviors
Great Uncle Henry Olivas, 5th Armored Division
Uncle Roy Larson, B-17 Pilot, Lost Over Germany April 1944
June 1941 German Invasion of Russia to Stalingrad
German Invasion of Poland, September 1939