D-Day

The definitive soldier-on-the-beach account of the greatest invasion in history. D-Day was the greatest invasion in history. An epic battle that involved 156,000 men, 7,000 ships and 20,000 armoured vehicles, the desperate struggle that unfolded on 6 June was, above all, a story of individual heroics - men who were driven to keep fighting, until the German defences were smashed and the precarious beachheads secured. In D-DAY Giles Milton paints a dazzling canvas of the opening day of battle, exp...