D-Day: The Battle for Normandy - Antony Beevor

This book should be required reading for presidents and prime-ministers, generals and school children the world around. Beevor has managed not only to provide a detailed factual history of the D-Day landings but also to capture the mood and spirit of the times. This is the way that history should be written. He gives a clear analysis of the competence and incompetence of the senior officers involved on both sides and the warning that he provides of the difference between conscript soldiers and those fighting for a dictator, having been subjected to years of propoganda might well have been an ... more