On the 75th anniversary of D-Day, a new history of the momentous
Normandy campaign with fresh insights from award-winning historian
James Holland D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the seventy-six days of
bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have
become the defining episode of World War II in the west--the object
of books, films, television series, and documentaries. Yet as
familiar as it is, as James Holland makes clear in his definitive
history, many parts of the OVERLORD campaign, as it was known, are
still shrouded in myth and assumed knowledge. Drawing freshly on
widespread archives and on the testimonies of eye-witnesses,
Holland relates the extraordinary planning that made Allied victory
in France possible; indeed, the story of how hundreds of thousands
of men, and mountains of materiel, were transported across the
English Channel, is as dramatic a human achievement as any
battlefield exploit. The brutal landings on the five beaches and
subsequent battles across the plains and through the lanes and
hedgerows of Normandy--a campaign that, in terms of daily
casualties, was worse than any in World War I--come vividly to life
in conferences where the strategic decisions of Eisenhower, Rommel,
Montgomery, and other commanders were made, and through the
memories of paratrooper Lieutenant Dick Winters of Easy Company,
British corporal and tanker Reg Spittles, Thunderbolt pilot Archie
Maltbie, German ordnance officer Hans Heinze, French resistance
leader Robert Leblanc, and many others. For both sides, the
challenges were enormous. The Allies confronted a disciplined
German army stretched to its limit, which nonetheless caused
tactics to be adjusted on the fly. Ultimately ingenuity,
determination, and immense materiel strength--delivered with
operational brilliance--made the difference. A stirring narrative
by a pre-eminent historian, Normandy '44 offers important new
perspective on one of history's most dramatic military engagements
and is an invaluable addition to the literature of war.
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