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Search - The Normandy Battlefields: D-Day and the Bridgehead

The Normandy Battlefields DDay and the Bridgehead
Author: Leo Marriott, Simon Forty

With their 70th anniversary just around the corner, the D-Day landings have lost none of their impact. Even today the vestiges of Hitler?s Atlantic Wall speak of the huge undertaking necessary for the Allies to gain a foothold in Normandy. In this beautiful new full-color book, the reader goes ?on-site? to the sacred battleground from its scarre... more »d medieval villages to the remains of modern means of destruction.

The huge armada that attacked from Britain left behind many signs of their passage: from the huge caissons of the mulberry harbor around Arromanches, the gun emplacements at Longues and Merville, to the multitude of hardware used as memorials?tanks, artillery, pillboxes?and the many graves and cemeteries that honor those who died on both sides. It is in memory of the dead that much of what can be seen on the ground survives, but as the last few survivors reach their 90s, a new audience requires information about the events of the past that can only come from seeing the ground where the battle was fought. Today, the beaches are a fascinating mixture of the new and the old, including the new visitors? center at Colleville and the renovation and expansion of the Utah Beach museum?even as further new memorials jostle with the older sites that have changed little in 70 years.

The Normandy Battlefields details what can be seen on the ground today using a mixture of media to provide a complete overview of the campaign. Maps old and new highlight what has survived and what hasn?t; then-and-now photography allows fascinating comparisons with the images taken at the time?particularly the aerial views?and computer artwork provides graphic details of things that can?t be seen today.

The book describes the area from Cherbourg to Le Havre by way of the key D-Day locations, providing a handbook for the visitor and an overview for the armchair traveler. It covers, wherever possible, the forces from both sides and the memorials to those young men who fought so many years ago.

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This lushly illustrated coffee table book is aimed at armchair travelers and Normandy visitors alike. The historical text is solid; then then vs now pictures remind us that time heals at least some wounds.

World War II Magazine

"...details what can be seen on the ground today using a mixture of media to provide a complete overview of the campaign. Maps old and new highlight what has survived and what hasn?t; then-and-now photography allows fascinating comparisons with the images taken at the time?particularly the aerial views?and computer artwork provides graphic details of things that can?t be seen today. A particular aspect of the book that is worthy of note is the photograph captions. A concerted effort has been made to identify not only locations, but also the individuals contained within well known photos - including in some cases their fate, during the battle for Normandy."

Recollections of WW2

ISBN-13: 9781612002316
ISBN-10: 1612002315
Publication Date: 3/19/2014
Pages: 192
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Publisher: Casemate
Book Type: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 2
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History >> Military >> World War II

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