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D-Day: The Air and Sea Invasion of Normandy in Photos
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- GenresNonfictionHistory
240 pages, Hardcover
Published June 1, 2019
About the author
Nicholas A. Veronico
48 books31 followers"I research and write for my personal enjoyment and educational enrichment. I am honored and humbled by the people I meet who so generously give of their time and share their stories for my projects."
-- Nicholas A. Veronico
Author Nicholas A. Veronico comes from a family of pilots, both his mother and father held private tickets, and his brother is a commercial pilot who flies for a major airline.
Veronico got his start in aviation journalism as a freelance journalist in 1984, then joined Pacific Flyer Aviation Newspapers. He then went on to serve as editor of In Flight USA, contributed extensively to FlyPast magazine, and in 1994 joined Airliners: The World's Airline Magazine. On a freelance basis, he has contributed to Air Classics, EAA Warbirds, Warbirds Worldwide, Airliner World, Classic Wings, and many others. His career path lead to the high-tech industry where he worked for an embedded systems-on-a-chip magazine, Silicon Strategies. Subsequently, he served as editor of "Gridpoints, the quarterly publication of the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division," which covered NASA's scientific achievements in computational physics using high performance computers. He now works as a science and technology journalist in the San Francisco Bay Area.
In addition to working in the magazine field, Veronico has collaborated with a number of today's best historians and authors and has written more than 30 books on a wide range of aviation and military topics, and local history subjects. He also served as the lead scriptwriter for Scrapping Aircraft Giants, a TV documentary by Daurg Productions and shown on The Discovery Channel. His homepage is www.pacaeropress.com.
Recently, the Military Writer's Society of America (www.militarywriters.com) recognized Veronico's history of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels flight demonstration team and his book on military aircraft storage (AMARG) with distinguished book awards.
-- Nicholas A. Veronico
Author Nicholas A. Veronico comes from a family of pilots, both his mother and father held private tickets, and his brother is a commercial pilot who flies for a major airline.
Veronico got his start in aviation journalism as a freelance journalist in 1984, then joined Pacific Flyer Aviation Newspapers. He then went on to serve as editor of In Flight USA, contributed extensively to FlyPast magazine, and in 1994 joined Airliners: The World's Airline Magazine. On a freelance basis, he has contributed to Air Classics, EAA Warbirds, Warbirds Worldwide, Airliner World, Classic Wings, and many others. His career path lead to the high-tech industry where he worked for an embedded systems-on-a-chip magazine, Silicon Strategies. Subsequently, he served as editor of "Gridpoints, the quarterly publication of the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division," which covered NASA's scientific achievements in computational physics using high performance computers. He now works as a science and technology journalist in the San Francisco Bay Area.
In addition to working in the magazine field, Veronico has collaborated with a number of today's best historians and authors and has written more than 30 books on a wide range of aviation and military topics, and local history subjects. He also served as the lead scriptwriter for Scrapping Aircraft Giants, a TV documentary by Daurg Productions and shown on The Discovery Channel. His homepage is www.pacaeropress.com.
Recently, the Military Writer's Society of America (www.militarywriters.com) recognized Veronico's history of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels flight demonstration team and his book on military aircraft storage (AMARG) with distinguished book awards.
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July 14, 2019
Just in time for the 75th anniversary year of the invasion which liberated Europe from Nazi occupation during WW II! D-Day: The Air and Sea Invasion of Normandy in Photos is another spectacular work by Veronico with his approach of using many more photos than most (and with detailed super informative captioning) in concert with a flowing writing style that speaks to the regular guy. Veronico emphasizes the boots-on-the-ground perspective. This is how the people you’d of known experienced one of the world’s most significant occurrences. The people you’d loan or borrow a fiver until payday, share your last cigar or beer with—not the view from Mount Olympus of commanders playing chess but with lives.
The book shows the magnitude and spectrum of the Normandy Invasion in the everyday events as well as the unsung details. Unsung details such as:
The British Royal Navy’s mini subs which acted as lighthouses guiding the initial invasion ships
The Butler Manufacturing Co.’s prefab hangars
Service of the Northrop P-61 Black Widows
The German remotely controlled tracked mines—Leichter Ladungsträger to the Axis and “beetles” to the Allies
Everyday events like:
The P-51 wing damaged by a tree when Lt. Spaulding was strafing a train
Flak damaged aircraft…so many that got back and so many that did not including the incredible demise of 1st Lt. Walsh’s A-20 Havoc
How landing ships used the lee of grounded vessels to better offload
The challenge of getting the wounded off the beach to the ships offshore
Nick Veronico also has the numbers in various tables which afford an understanding of both the magnitude of the Allies efforts as well as the magnitude of the cost to the Allies. Five appendices address these aspects as well as today’s aircraft and ship survivors in addition to a variety of museums or memorials which can be visited. Most poignantly are the citations of those awarded the Medal of Honor.
Veronico has written a book which must be obtained and read for an understanding of D-Day from the human perspective. It is of handy size and a handsome book done well—as well as easily affordable.
The book shows the magnitude and spectrum of the Normandy Invasion in the everyday events as well as the unsung details. Unsung details such as:
The British Royal Navy’s mini subs which acted as lighthouses guiding the initial invasion ships
The Butler Manufacturing Co.’s prefab hangars
Service of the Northrop P-61 Black Widows
The German remotely controlled tracked mines—Leichter Ladungsträger to the Axis and “beetles” to the Allies
Everyday events like:
The P-51 wing damaged by a tree when Lt. Spaulding was strafing a train
Flak damaged aircraft…so many that got back and so many that did not including the incredible demise of 1st Lt. Walsh’s A-20 Havoc
How landing ships used the lee of grounded vessels to better offload
The challenge of getting the wounded off the beach to the ships offshore
Nick Veronico also has the numbers in various tables which afford an understanding of both the magnitude of the Allies efforts as well as the magnitude of the cost to the Allies. Five appendices address these aspects as well as today’s aircraft and ship survivors in addition to a variety of museums or memorials which can be visited. Most poignantly are the citations of those awarded the Medal of Honor.
Veronico has written a book which must be obtained and read for an understanding of D-Day from the human perspective. It is of handy size and a handsome book done well—as well as easily affordable.
October 23, 2019
Doing research on Bill Millin toward my own history writing, I ordered every piece of D-day media I possibly could (I was a bit tight on time) from my local library -- every book, e-book, audiobook, DVD, everything! Among these was NAVeronico's new book. It didn't have a thing about Bill Millin, so it wasn't of use to me -- but paging through this book ... I couldn't put it down! The pictures, the hard data -- I found it fascinating ... and distracting. It is unlike any other Normandy Invasion foci book I have seen. IMO this is an invaluable new contribution to an already much studied and written about topic. BZ, Mr. Veronico!
June 29, 2021
Does what it says! Loads and loads of photographs on every page with just enough captions to keep you informed and learning. Highly recommended to anyone wanting to learn more about D-Day.
October 7, 2018
I loved the pictures in this book I remember reading it two or three times. This is a book for guys who really like military stories. When I was young it was hard to understand everything that took place in Europe when I was a kid. To understand the distance from Normandy to Belgium and how difficult The whole invasion was And yet All through Europe I saw the results or the ruins of World War II. Great book.
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