D-Day - Operation Overlord and The Battle for Normandy
2014 | ISBN: 1909128392 | English | 132 pages | PDF | 20,4 MB

It was the most ambitious military operation in history � the invasion of Nazi-occupied France by sea. A fleet larger than any ever seen before was assembled and launched under conditions of utmost secrecy to catch the defenders of Adolf Hitler�s Atlantic Wall by surprise.
At H-Hour on D-Day, British, Canadian and American soldiers landed on beaches whose codenames have since become a byword for heroism � Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha and Utah. Men waded ashore into a hail of machine gun fire and fought their way through a tangle of concrete bunkers and armoured emplacements.
More ferocious combat followed as fanatical Waffen-SS divisions armed with terrifying new weapons such as the Panther tank battled to the death to contain the Allied advance.