Beevor, Antony, — D-DAY - The Battle For Normandy.
Penguin, London, 2010, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, xv, 592pp, 24pp half tone photo ills., maps/diagrams in text, half tone pictorial upper wrapper, an account by the award winning historian of the Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day, 1944, involving by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was difficult to imagine. The individual encounters that followed included some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the war, at times as savage as anything seen on the Eastern Front. As casualties mounted so too did the tensions between the principal commanders on both sides. Meanwhile French civilians caught in the middle of these battlefields or under Allied bombing endured terrible suffering. Even the joys of Liberation had their darker side.lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, lighrt foxing to half title, very good,
