Book description
The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the
largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was
simply awesome. What followed them was some of the most cunning and
ferocious fighting of the war, at times as savage as anything seen on
the Eastern Front. As casualties mounted, so too did the tensions
between the principal commanders on both sides. Meanwhile, French
civilians caught in the middle of these battlefields or under Allied
bombing endured terrible suffering. Even the joys of Liberation had
their darker side. The war in northern France marked not just a
generation but the whole of the post-war world, profoundly influencing
relations between America and Europe.
Making use of overlooked and new material from over thirty archives
in half a dozen countries, D-Day is the most vivid and well-researched
account yet of the battle of Normandy. As with Stalingrad and
Berlin, Antony Beevor's gripping narrative conveys the true
experience of war.
Antony Beevor is the renowned author of
Stalingrad
, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for History and
the Hawthornden Prize for Literature, and
Berlin
, which received the first Longman-History Today Trustees' Award. His
books have sold nearly four million copies.
