Table of Contents

The Planning The Leaders German Forces & Defences Deception & Intelligence Resistance and SOE Pegasus Bridge British Airborne Assault US Airborne Assault Utah Beach Pointe du Hoc Omaha Beach Gold Beach Juno Beach Sword Beach Villers Bocage Pluto and Mulberries Operation Epsom Bocage and the Capture of Cherbourg Medics Battle for St Lo Operation Goodwood Operation Cobra Operation Luttich Allied Air Support Operations Totalize and Tractable The Falaise Pocket Crossing the Seine and the Liberation of Paris.

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Endorsed by the IWM, the book includes rare memorabilia from their archives, as well as painstakingly researched documents from the archives of D-Day museums in Normandy.

About the Author

Professor Richard Holmes was one of the UK's leading military historians. As well as being the General Editor of the Oxford Companion to Military History, he presented several documentary series for the BBC. His books included The Napoleonic Wars Experience, as well as Tommy: The British Solider on the Western Front, Wellington: The Iron Duke and Red Coat. He died in 2011. IWM (Imperial War Museums) is a leading authority on conflict and its impact, from the First World War to the present. A family of five museums, IWM illustrates and records all aspects of modern war and of the individual's experience of it, whether allied or enemy, service or civilian, military or political, social or cultural.