Dimensions
251 x 251 x 15mm
At fifteen minutes after midnight on June 6, 1944, "Operation Overlord" , the Allied invasion of Hitler's Fortress Europe, became reality. From a moonlit sky, more than 17,000 paratroopers were stepping into space over Normandy. They were the advance guard of the greatest amphibious operation ever known, whose logistics stagger the imagination even now: close to 7,000 ships, almost 250,000 sailors and fighting men, backed by an aerial umbrella of 3,000 planes.
'D-Day, June 6, 1944' is in essence a modern Bayeux Tapestry, stitched together from the words and memories of those who took part; from the commanders like Bradley and Montgomery, the fighter pilots, landing-craft skippers and the US Rangers, assigned to scale the 100-foot high Pointe Resistance.
Richard Collier's taut account of events is complemented by contemporary eye-witness testimony, documents, reports and a chorus of commentators - journalists, poets, writers - to evoke a supreme historical moment.
