Sand and Steel: The D-Day Invasion and the Liberation of France

by Peter Caddick-Adams

Book Overview

Peter Caddick-Adams's account of the Allied invasion of France in June 1944 matches the monumental achievement of his book on the Battle of the Bulge, Snow and Steel, which Richard Overy has called the "standard history of this climactic confrontation in the West." Sand and Steel gives us D-Day, arguably the greatest and most consequential military operation of modern times, beginning with the years of painstaking and costly preparation, through to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190601892
• ISBN13: 9780190601898
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 1072 Pages
• Weight: 3.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"