{"product_id":"9781035425174","title":"Victory in Europe : From D-Day to the Destruction of the Third Reich, 1944-1945 by Julian Thompson","description":"Celebrate the 80th anniversary of VE Day in this fully illustrated insight into the final months of the Second World War.   From the long-awaited opening of the second front in the West on D-Day, 6 June 1944, to the final surrender of Germany on 8 May 1945, the Allied armies in north-west Europe under the supreme command of Eisenhower fought a gruelling series of battles against Axis forces hardened by years of war and desperate to defend their homeland from destruction.   Written by a leading military historian, Julian Thompson, Victory in Europe contains 30 facsimile items of Second World War reproduced throughout the book. Re-live this momentous period of history through maps, diaries, letters, sketches, secret memos and reports, posters and labels all sourced from the archives of the Imperial War Museums.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56296051540341,"sku":"9781035425174","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781035425174.jpg?v=1762770057","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781035425174","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}