The most comprehensive and authoritative history of D-Day ever published
‘Extraordinary’ Andrew Roberts
‘Fascinating’ Daily Mail
‘Magisterial’ James Holland
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6 June 1944, 4 a.m.
Hundreds of boats assemble off the coast of Normandy. By nightfall, thousands of the men they carry will be dead.
Through their sacrifice, the Allies will gain a foothold in Europe that will ultimately lead to the downfall of the Third Reich.
This was D-Day, the most important day of the twentieth century.
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In Sand and Steel, one of Britain’s leading military historians draws on a decade of archival research and thousands of interviews to offer a panoramic new account of the Allied invasion of France.
Peter Caddick-Adams masterfully recreates what it was like to wade
