The Normandy Battlefields
With their 70th anniversary just around the corner, the D-Day landings have lost none of their impact. Even today the vestiges of Hitleras 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 aon-sitea to the sacred battleground from its scarred 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 memorialsatanks, artillery, pillboxesaand 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 visitorsa center at Colleville and the renovation and expansion of the Utah Beach museumaeven 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 hasnat; then-and-now photography allows fascinating comparisons with the images taken at the timeaparticularly the aerial viewsaand computer artwork provides graphic details of things that canat 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.Bowman, Martin W: Remembering D-Day: Personal Histories of Everyday Heroes ; HarperCollins, London, 2004. ... Holt, Tonie and Valmai: Major aamp; Mrs Holta#39;s Battlefield Guide: Normandy Landing Beaches; Leo Cooper, Barnsley, 1999. ... Ramsey, J.: D-Day Memories of a Tank Gunner: With a#39;Aa#39; Squadron Westminster Dragoons; via http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/89/a26987 89 .shtmlanbsp;...
| Title | : | The Normandy Battlefields |
| Author | : | Leo Marriott, Simon Forty |
| Publisher | : | Casemate - 2014-03-19 |
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