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Normandy · 1944
The Bedford Boys
On D-Day morning, a small Virginia town lost nineteen of its sons on Omaha Beach. Weeks later, the telegrams came in, to the town drugstore.
Most of the men who came home from the war never talked about it. They went back to the farm, the factory and the family, and they kept what they had seen to themselves. Their stories ended up in small-town newspapers, old letters and government files that almost nobody reads anymore. So we went and found ten of them, checked every name and date, and wrote them down plain, the way they deserve to be told.
Everything here, the illustrated book, the large-print edition, the full audiobook and the keepsake pages, for one payment of $14.99.
The Untold War, Volume One: ten true WW2 stories in one illustrated book, about 120 pages, with sources for every chapter
The Complete Audiobook: every story read aloud, as MP3 chapters for any phone, tablet or computer
The Large-Print Edition: big, clear type that is easy on tired eyes
“My Veteran’s Story” Keepsake Pages: printable pages to record a family member’s service, photos and memories
Lifetime updates: every correction and new page added to this edition, free
Sixteen million Americans served in World War Two. Only a small number are still with us. Every year, more of what they lived through is lost for good.
If your father or grandfather served, some of these stories will feel very close to home.
Each chapter puts you right there, on the beach, in the cabin, at the kitchen table when the telegram comes. Then it tells you what really happened, and what became of the people afterwards.
On D-Day morning, a small Virginia town lost nineteen of its sons on Omaha Beach. Weeks later, the telegrams came in, to the town drugstore.
Weeks before D-Day, more than 700 Americans died in a practice landing off the coast of England. For years, almost nobody was told what happened.
A bomber crew vanished over Africa. Fifteen years later, oil explorers found their plane in the desert, and a diary of their last days.
On Christmas Eve, a ship full of young Americans was torpedoed within sight of France. Their families waited decades for the full story.
Three lost American soldiers knocked on a German mother's door. Then four German soldiers knocked too. She told them all to leave their guns outside.
About two hundred Texans were trapped behind enemy lines in the mountains of France. The Japanese American soldiers sent to save them paid a terrible price.
In the last days of the war, American soldiers and German soldiers fought side by side to defend an Austrian castle from the SS.
Hundreds of American airmen shot down over Yugoslavia were hidden by mountain villagers, then flown out from a field cut by hand.
An Army dentist stayed with his wounded men when the enemy overran their position. His Medal of Honor arrived fifty-eight years later.
Warehouses of undelivered letters were breaking the hearts of soldiers overseas. Eight hundred fifty-five women were given six months to fix it. They did it in three.
This book comes from WW2 Life Uncovered, the channel that tells the war through the eyes of the ordinary GI.
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WW2 Life Uncovered tells the war the way the people who lived it would have told it: not the generals and the maps, but the nineteen-year-old in the foxhole, the nurse in the cellar, the mother waiting for a letter.
Every story in this book comes from the record: military histories, newspapers of the time, official archives and the words of the people who were there. Every name and number is checked, and the sources are listed at the back, so you can look them up yourself.
No made-up heroes. No movie versions. Just what happened, told plain and with respect.
Your download link arrives in your email within a minute of paying. Read it on any phone, tablet or computer, listen in the car, or print it at the table.
The Untold War, Volume One: the illustrated book, all ten stories
The Complete Audiobook: every story read aloud
The Large-Print Edition
“My Veteran’s Story” Keepsake Pages
Lifetime updates to this edition
Every one of them. All names, dates and numbers come from the historical record, and the sources for each chapter are listed at the back of the book.
No. All ten stories were written for this book and are not on the channel.
Right after checkout, your download link appears on screen and arrives in your email within a minute. Click it and the book is yours. No account or app is needed.
Yes. The book is a regular PDF that opens on any phone, tablet or computer. You can also print it and read it the old-fashioned way.
The book already uses large, clear type, and a separate large-print edition is included at no extra cost.
You download it as MP3 files, one per story. Tap a story on your phone, or play it on your computer or in the car.
Many people buy it for a father, grandfather or anyone who loves history. You can print it for them, or pass along the audiobook.
$14.99 once, for the book, the audiobook, the large-print edition and the keepsake pages. Yours to keep, and yours to pass down.