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SAND AND STEEL - PETER CADDICK-ADAMS TASCHENBUCH

The most comprehensive and authoritative history of D-Day ever published 'Extraordinary' Andrew
Roberts 'Fascinating' Daily Mail 'Magisterial' James Holland ________________ 6 June 1944  4
a.m. Hundreds of boats assemble off the coast of France. By nightfall  thousands of the men
they carry will be dead. This was D-Day  the most important day of the twentieth century. In
Sand and Steel  one of Britain's leading military historians offers a panoramic new account of
the Allied invasion of France. Drawing on a decade of new research  Peter Caddick-Adams
masterfully recreates what it was like to wade out onto the carnage of Omaha Beach  or
parachute behind enemy lines in Normandy. He explores the year-long preparations that went into
the invasion  overturning decades-old assumptions about Allied strategy. And he pays tribute to
the remarkable individuals who made D-Day possible - not just soldiers on the beaches  but also
paratroopers  sailors  aircrews  and women on the Home Front. The result is a compulsively
readable account of the greatest battle of the Second World War. It will be the definitive work
on D-Day for years to come. ________________ 'A hugely impressive book which makes full use of
a lifetime of learning and experience.' Herald 'Peter Caddick-Adams' D-Day must surely go down
as the definitive narrative of that pivotal moment in the history of the war.' James Holland
'This is a warts-and-all forensic examination of the Allied invasion  offering stacks of
insight based on a decade of research.' Soldier

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