Vividly illustrated history of a region assaulted by war, the fate of its people and their liberators. June 6, 1944 was a date forever etched in history. With the landing of Allied troops on the Normandy coast, so began one of the major confrontations of the war. This book remembers the sacrifice of a region and its people, and that of those men who came across to rest forever in this land. Illustrated throughout
