Book description
The Allied assault on Normandy beaches was an almost flawless
success, but it was to take three months of bitter fighting before the
German defence of Normandy finally collapsed and Paris was liberated.
In this masterly and highly individual account of that struggle, the
reader is subjected to the gruelling ordeals confronted by the
combatants - each encounter related from the point of view of a
different nationality. While transcending conventional military
history, it provides an intensely vivid picture of one of the Second
World War's most crucial campaigns.
John Keegan, who was knighted in the Millennium Honours List, was the
Defence Editor of the
Daily Telegraph
and Britain's foremost military historian. The Reith Lecturer in 1998,
he authored many bestselling books including
The Face of Battle
,
The Mask of Command
,
The Second World War
,
A History of Warfare
(awarded the Duff Cooper Prize),
The First World War
,
Intelligence in War, The American Civil War
and
The Iraq War
. John Keegan died in 2012.
