Konecky & Konecky Military Books, 2000. Hardcover. New hardcover in a new dust jacket. Pages are clean and free of marks or underlining. 8vo. (6.75 x 1.5 x 9.5 inches) Includes appendices [3], index, photos, and maps. 560 pp.

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ISBN: 1568522606

The battle for Normandy was the most complex and daring military operation in the history of modern Warfare. Two years of intense, detailed
planning reached its successful conclusion when
the Allied forces took the beaches on D-Day. But
the seventy-six-day campaign that followed, the
Allies' crucial bid for a toehold in western Europe,
was one of the bloodiest of the war, and its true
story has been concealed in myth.

Drawing on a wealth of previously unpublished
papers, declassified documents, diaries, and
personal interviews, Carlo D'Este has written the
first full account of what actually happened in Normandy-how the campaign went wrong and
how it was eventually won. His discovery of General Montgomery's original plan and the failure of its execution has already stirred controversy in Britain where Nigel Hamilton, Montgomery's biographer, has said that Decision in Normandy
"will keep historians arguing for a decade."

Step-by-step the reader is taken through the
Normandy campaign from the earliest days after
Dunkirk when Churchill first considered the idea
of a cross-Channel invasion of France, to the Key
battles that determined that outcome, with maps
explaining clearly the strategy and logistics of
each battle.

This is military history at its most dramatic, with
a cast of characters that includes Montgomery,
Rommel, Patton, Bradley, and Eisenhower. Decision in Normandy is destined to become the
definitive account of a campaign Rommel
described as "a terrible blood-letting" and whose
outcome became the decisive turning point for
the Allied victory.

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