Fighting on the Beaches

"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender," Winston Churchill famously declared in 1940, and his prediction was validated on the sixth of June, 1944. This history by the author of Turning the Tide surveys the Allies's highly secretive preparations for D-Day, the implementation of Operation Overlord, the battle of the Falise Pocket, and the push to liberate Europe. Nigel Cawthorne devotes individual chapters to each of the five most important beaches on the day of the invasion, and considers the importance of aerial assaults in the campaign.