Description
| Product ID: | 9781911703426 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | D Day Overlord |
| Authors: | Author: Dan Sharp |
| Page Count: | 132 |
| Subjects: | History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Second World War, War and defence operations, Second World War, War & defence operations, France, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Updated to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, D-Day: Operation Overlord and the Battle for Normandy, tells the full story of the invasion, with detailed accounts of each of the five landing zones on June 6, 1944, the airborne assault and the Normandy campaign that followed. It was the most ambitious military operation in history – the invasion of Nazi-occupied France by sea. A fleet larger than any ever seen before was assembled and launched under conditions of utmost secrecy to catch the defenders of Adolf Hitler’s formidable Atlantic Wall by surprise.At H-Hour on D-Day, British, American and Canadian soldiers landed on beaches whose codenames have since become a byword for heroism – Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha and Utah. Men waded ashore into a hail of machine gun fire and fought their way through a tangle of concrete bunkers and armoured emplacements. More ferocious combat followed as fanatical Waffen-SS divisions armed with terrifying new weapons such as the King Tiger tank battled to the death to contain the Allied advance.D-Day: Operation Overlord and the Battle for Normandy tells the story of the most important battle of the Second World War and remembers the men whose extraordinary courage and sacrifice brought about the liberation of Europe and put an end to Hitler’s tyranny. |
| Imprint Name: | Mortons Media Group |
| Publisher Name: | Mortons Media Group |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2024-04-12 |
