Churchill's D-Day: The British Bulldog's Fateful Hours During the Normandy Invasion

From the world's greatest collection of Winston Churchill's personal papers comes the genesis, execution, and aftermath of D-Day through his own eyes.

On June 6, 1944, the landings from the greatest armada of ships ever assembled began at 0630 hrs. Overnight, paratroopers from the British 6th Airborne Division had secured the eastern flank of the landing zone with the US 82nd and 101st Airborne Division securing the western flank to reduce the risk of German counterattacks.

The Allied batt...