D-Day: The Battle for Normandy is the first major account in twenty years to cover the invasion from June 6, 1944 up to the liberation of Paris on August 25. It is the first book to describe not only the experiences of the American, British, Canadian and German soldiers, but also the terrible suffering of the French caught up in the fighting. D-Day will surely be hailed as the consummate account of the Normandy invasion.

This book presents readers with an overview of D-Day, illustrating its great importance in military and world history, identifying mistakes committed on both sides, and explaining all aspects of the 1944 Allied invasion of France and the Normandy Campaign that followed. Nine key primary source documents, four appendices, a bibliography of books on the subject, and a timeline of critical events are also provided.

"Those who witnessed it never forgot it: the great armada of Allied ships that filled the English Channel on D-Day, June 6, 1944. From battleships, cruisers, and destroyers down to the much smaller landing ships and landing craft, these nearly 7,000 vessels bombarded the Normandy coast, ferried men, tanks, and equipment across the channel, and landed 150,000 troops--under withering German fire--on Omaha, Utah, Gold, Juno, and Sword beaches in a single...

"Peter Caddick-Adams's account of the Allied invasion of France in June 1944 matches the monumental achievement of his book on the Battle of the Bulge, Snow and Steel, which Richard Overy has called the "standard history of this climactic confrontation in the West." Sand and Steel gives us D-Day, arguably the greatest and most consequential military operation of modern times, beginning with the years of painstaking and costly preparation, through...