Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy

On June 6 1944 American and British troops staged the greatest amphibious landing in history to begin Operation Overlord the battle to liberate Europe from the scourge of the Third Reich. With gut-wrenching realism and immediacy Hastings reveals the terrible human cost that this battle exacted. Moving beyond just the storming of Omaha beach and D-Day he explores the Allies push inward with many British and American infantry units suffering near 100 percent casualties during the course of that awful summer. Far from a gauzy romanticized remembrance Hastings details a grueling ten week battle to overpower the superbly trained geographically entrenched German Wehrmacht. Uncompromising and powerful in its depiction of wartime this is the definitive book on D-Day and the Battle of Normandy.