D-Day Lost Evidence - Hardcover

Going, Chris; Jones, Alun

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0859790975 ISBN 13: 9780859790970

Publisher: Crecy Publishing, 2004

Synopsis

On the night of June 5, 1944, the greatest armada the world has seen sailed into the stormy waters of the English Channel, its goal was no less than the liberation of Occupied Europe and the defeat of Nazi Germany.

As dawn broke on June 6, the Allied generals and leaders waited for news. There was only one way the true state of the battle could be seen--from above. The task of bringing back these pictures fell to an elite band of pilots and the contents of their cameras would unveil the true story of D-Day.

To a privileged few, these images depicted the life and death struggle below: the bloody slaughter on Omaha beach: the daring capture of Pegasus bridge: the taking of Pointe-Du-Hoc. Even individual actions such as the attack by 'Easy' Company of the 506th on the gun battery at Brecourt Manor - later immortalized in the book and TV series 'The Band of Brothers' were captured on aerial photographs - as they happened.

Later dispersed and scattered to archives and collections around the world, these classified images, this lost evidence of D-Day, has now been painstakingly tracked down and re-assembled,pieced together and digitally enhanced. Finally, this lost evidence of D-Day can at last be seen.

About this title

About the Author:

Alun Jones QC (Call 1972, Silk 1989) is one of the country's leading specialists in commercial crime, extradition, criminal law, mutual assistance, and asset confiscation. Based at 37 Great James Street Chambers, he has defended as leading counsel in eight major Serious Fraud Office prosecutions,
conducted fourteen full House of Lords appeals in extradition cases (including Pinochet), and has conducted fourteen full House of Lords appeals in extradition cases. He co-authored Jones & Doobay on Extradition and Mutual Assistance (Sweet & Maxwell 2005; third edition), and is currently co-writing
with James Lewis QC, Ben Brandon, and Dr Rob Cryer, The Prosecution of International Crimes in English Courts for OUP. Also based at 37 Great James Street Chambers, Rupert Bowers (Call 1995) is a criminal practitioner specialising in serious fraud, extradition, and the criminal aspects of
immigration cases. He is currently instructed by Clyde and Co. and led by Alun Jones Q.C, in the ongoing and high profile extradition case of Dr. Irving who has been accused of breaching U.N. sanctions against Iraq under the humanitarian Oil-for-Food programme.

About this edition

• Publisher: Crecy Publishing
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0859790975
• ISBN 13: 9780859790970
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144