D-Day / Normandy Landings
Briefing
On 6 June 1944 some 156,000 Allied troops landed across five Normandy beaches, delivered by nearly 7,000 vessels in the largest amphibious operation ever mounted. The brutal weeks of fighting that followed in the bocage broke the German front in the West; Paris was liberated by the end of August.
Books Covering This Event (33)
Popular History
The classic account of D-Day told through the eyes of soldiers, officers, and civilians on both sides.
A monumental history of Nazi Germany from its origins through its destruction, written by a journalist who.
The liberation of Paris in August 1944 and Hitler's order to destroy the city.
The Normandy campaign told through six national armies — American, British, Canadian, Polish, French, and German.
A reappraisal of the Normandy campaign arguing that German soldiers were man-for-man superior to their Allied.
The glider assault that opened D-Day — six minutes past midnight, the first house in France liberated.
A single-volume history of the entire war by the most influential military historian of the 20th century.
The story of Easy Company, 506th PIR, from D-Day to Hitler's Eagle's Nest.
The American experience on D-Day, told through hundreds of oral histories from the men who fought.
The American soldier's experience from the Normandy beaches to the fall of Germany.
One Virginia town of 3,000 lost nineteen of its sons in the first minutes of Omaha Beach.
Eddie Chapman — safecracker, womaniser, and double agent — fakes sabotage for the Germans while working for MI5.
A comprehensive account of the Normandy invasion from the initial landings through the liberation of Paris.
A single-volume history of the war organised around one question: why did the Axis lose?
A global history of the war focused on the experience of ordinary people — soldiers and civilians — caught in.
The war of Felix Sparks and the 157th Infantry — from Sicily to Dachau.
The D-Day spies: how every German agent in Britain was turned, and an imaginary army aimed at Calais.
The final volume of the Liberation Trilogy: from D-Day to the fall of the Third Reich.
The women of SOE parachuted into France to arm the Resistance ahead of the invasion.
Academic
A revolutionary study comparing combat experience at Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme.
The standard one-volume academic history of the entire global war.
An analytical answer to the war's biggest question — production, technology, morale, and the sea lanes.
Memoir
Pyle's dispatches from Sicily, Italy, and Normandy — the war at the level of one tired man at a time.
Churchill's six-volume memoir-history of the entire war, from the gathering storm to triumph and tragedy.
The Supreme Commander's own account of the war in the West, from Torch to the German surrender.
The Desert Fox's own campaign narratives and letters, recovered after his forced suicide and edited by Liddell Hart.
A replacement infantry officer from Normandy to the Bulge — of his original company, almost no one else lasted.
SOE's 22-year-old codemaster fights to replace poem codes that were killing his agents — including the one he wrote for the girl he loved.
Easy Company's commander tells his own story — Brécourt Manor, Bastogne, and the burden of leading men you love.
Oral histories from German soldiers who defended the Normandy beaches on June 6, 1944.
Historical Fiction
Three soldiers — two American, one German — converge across the whole war toward a single clearing in Bavaria.
A blind French girl and a German boy's paths converge in occupied Saint-Malo during the Allied bombardment.
