{"product_id":"2026100007914-secondhand-victory-in-europe-d-day-to-v-e-day-first-time-in-full-colour","title":"Victory In Europe: D-Day To V-E Day: First Time In Full Colour","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good. Jacket: Worn\/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe liberation of Western Europe stands as one of the most dramatic and consequential military campaigns in human history, and Victory in Europe brings it to life in unprecedented colour for the very first time. Max Hastings, one of Britain's foremost military historians, chronicles the Allied campaign from the blood-soaked beaches of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, through the hard-fought advances across France, Belgium, and into the heart of Germany, to the final unconditional surrender on V-E Day, May 8, 1945. Paired with the extraordinary full-colour photography of George Stevens — a Hollywood director turned U.S. Army Signal Corps cameraman — the book presents an intimate and visceral portrait of soldiers, civilians, and commanders caught in the tide of history.\n\nHastings brings his trademark authority and clarity to the narrative, grounding grand strategic movements in the human experience of war — the exhaustion, the grief, and the fierce, hard-won elation of victory. The photographs, long held in private archives and presented here for the first time in full colour, transform familiar black-and-white imagery into something immediate and alive, collapsing the distance between past and present. Together, text and image make a compelling case that the road from Omaha Beach to Berlin was far longer, costlier, and more complex than popular memory tends to allow — leaving the reader to wonder at the fragile chain of events that ultimately decided the fate of the free world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130498752731,"sku":"2026100007914-SECONDHAND","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/97fe205e-4a3b-4277-964c-cf9fae17a138.png?v=1786586030","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100007914-secondhand-victory-in-europe-d-day-to-v-e-day-first-time-in-full-colour","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}