Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1065352 in Books
• Published on: 1994
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .1 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

From Amazon.com
John Keegan's innovative approach to the invasion of Normandy correctly observes that the invasion, while colossal, was merely the beginning of a series of furious battles in northern France, and Keegan accordingly tackles not only the actions of June 6, 1944, but the subsequent Normandy campaigns by five Allied nations and their German opponents. Focusing on specific actions, such as the U.S. 101st Airborne night drop into France and the British infantry battles surrounding the city of Caen, he provides an exciting chronological account of the action in Normandy with considerable depth about tactical decisions.

Keegan is a skilled writer and his battle accounts are stirring. But beyond the vivid battle stories, this is also a book that will engage intellectually those who study battles and tactics, as well as the diplomatic activity that was necessary for the Allied victory in the Second World War's European theater of operations. --Robert McNamara

From Library Journal
Keegan's 1982 volume is being reissued to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy. At the time of its debut, LJ's reviewer commented that it was more for "serious students of the period" than the casual reader (LJ 7/82). This edition contains a new introduction.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Ingram
The man "who writes about the war better than almost anyone in our century" ( The Washington Post Book World) here details how the armies of six nations met on the battlefields of Normandy in what was to be the greatest allied achievement of World War II.