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The Definitive Battlefield Guide to the D-Day Normandy Landing Beaches
Already the best-selling English-language guide to the area, universally known as `THE BIBLE`, this is the sixth, completely revised, up-to-date, much expanded edition of the DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO THE D-DAY NORMANDY LANDING BEACHES.Written to the same highly acclaimed formula as all of the other books in this important series of Battlefield Guides (Somme, Ypres, Gallipoli, Market-Garden, Western Front – North, Western Front – South). Once again the cold facts are interlaced with anecdotes of bravery, humour, sadness and humanity.This new edition now contains:rnrn All the landing Beaches: JUNO, SWORD, GOLD, OMAHA, UTAH All the Airborne Operations: British and American Two Approach Routes; Six timed and measured Itineraries 21 in-text Itinerary maps, Battle maps & Diagrams Approx 400 recommended sites within the D-Day planned area of advance,rnall with photos, each with Latitude & Longitude references (New for this Edition) Over 400 coloured pictures, 352 pages Memorials / Museums / Batteries / Bunkers / Landing fields Allied and German War Cemeteries Historical background to the landings The Plans and what actually happened Information about Allied and German War Graves Associations Veterans` and other commemorative associations Normandy tourist information: Where to stay / where to eat Cameos about personalities – VCs / MOHs / Poets / Photographers etc…