Physical description: xv, 591 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations, maps 25 cm. Particularly well-preserved overall tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Normandy (France) History, Military 20th century. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns France Normandy. Contents: The decision - Bearing the cross of Lorraine - Watch on the channel - Stealing off the invasion area - The airborne assault - The armada crosses - omaha - Utah and the airborne - Gold and Juno - Sword - Securing the beacheads - Failure at Caen - Villers-Bocage - The Americans on the Cotentin Peninsula - Operation Epsom - The battle of the Bocage - Caen and the Hill of Calvary - The final battle for Saint-Lô - Operation Goodwood - The plot against Hilter - Operation Cobra - Breakthrough - Operation Cobra - Breakout - Brittany and operation Bluecoat - The Mortain counter-attack - Operation Totalize - The hammer and anvil - The killing ground of the Falaise Pocket - The Paris uprising and the race for the Seine - The Liberation of Paris - Aftermath. Remains particularly well-preserved overall tight, bright, clean and strong. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved.

D-Day by Antony Beevor