D-Day, June 6 1944, was the glorious turning-point in the Second World War. More than that, it was a pivotal day in human history. On that morning the largest armada ever assembled carried 150,000 men-British, American, Canadian-across the English Channel. Those men set down on a bleak and heavily fortified stretch of the Normandy coast, where they fought to end what Churchill called 'the new dark age' of Nazi domination.All the men who came through...