Operation Neptune: The D-Day Landings and the Allied Invasion of Europe

by Craig L. Symonds

Book Overview

Seventy years ago, more than six thousand Allied ships carried more than a million soldiers across the English Channel to a fifty-mile-wide strip of the Normandy coast in German-occupied France. It was the greatest sea-borne assault in human history. The code names given to the beaches where the ships landed the soldiers have become immortal: Gold, Juno, Sword, Utah, and especially Omaha, the scene of almost unimaginable human tragedy. The sea of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199986118
• ISBN13: 9780199986118
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.3"