D-Day and the Normandy Invasion: Essential History

It was one of the most momentous campaigns of World War II - both an epic confrontation between huge armed forces, and a life-or-death struggle between individual men, played out amid some of the most bitter fighting of the conflict. Leaders of the collected free world joined forces and agreed that a French invasion was to take place in the summer of 1944. The task in hand was a huge undertaking and required military precision planning and coordination of all the Allied forces involved. The...