Table of Contents

Foreword; Introduction; A Great Crusade?; "Remember this is an Invasion" (Sir Winston Churchill, 7 April 1944); "The Great Shadow-Boxing Match" (Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Morgan, in 'Overture to Overlord'); "A Very Lofty Perch" (Field Marshall Montgomery, 1944); "Throw Them Back" (Field Marshall Erwin Rommel - Commandant of German Army Group B); "In the Air, on the Ground, and in the Factories" (General Arnold, Commander of US Army Air Forces in his Christmas 1943 address); "The Greatest Military Armada ever Launched" (Ken Garrett, LSR2, Ret'd); "A Visitor to Hell" (Pvt. Charles Neighbor, 29th Division, Omaha Beach); "Blood Upon the Risers" ('Blood Upon the Risers', the paratrooper's song); "Their Road will be Long and Hard" (Roosevelt's prayer to the nation on D-Day); "With Unbelieving Eyes" (Franz Gockel, German soldier at D-Day); "Much the greatest thing we have ever attempted" (Winston Churchill to President Roosevelt); "The Eyes of the World" (General Dwight D. Eisenhower, D-Day, 6 June 1944)

About the Author

Dr Duncan Anderson, Ronald J Drez, Carlo D'Este, Dr Andrew Gordon, Dr Christina Goulter, Dr David Hall, Dr Russell Hart, Dr Stephen A Hart, Professor Allan Millett, Dr Williamson Murray, Professor Sam J Newland, Professor Dennis Showalter. Foreword by Major Richard Winters (Ret), Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne.

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