The G.I.'s

Norman Longmate (1925- ) is an English author and social and military historian. He was educated at Christ's Hospital and Worcester College, Oxford, where he specialized in Modern History. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Longmate is the author of many WWII historical books which include: If Britain Had Fallen, The GIs: the Americans in Britain 1942-1945, Hitler's Rockets: The Story of the V2s, and The Home Front: an Anthology of Personal Experience 1938-1945. In 2014 his book, How We Lived Then: A History of Everyday Life during the Second World War, made the New York Times bestseller non-fiction list.

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