This guidebook gives comprehensive information about:
- Major battles and battlefields
- Memorials, sites, cemeteries, and statues
- How to get there; what to see
- Contemporary eyewitness accounts
- Then-and-now photographs and maps

On D Day, 6th June 1944 the greatest seaborne assault ever was launched against Hitler's Fortress Europe onto the beaches of Normandy. This battlefield guide tells in detail, how these objectives were achieved and relates the battles to the area as it is today.The book contains details of museums, memorials, cemeteries, tours and associated organizations all of which will unravel the history of the area to the visitor and armchair traveler alike.

This battlefield guide is the companion work to Pegasus Bridge & Horsa Bridge. Together, these two books form the fully revised and updated edition of the previous best selling Battleground Europe Series book Pegasus Bridge & Merville Battery.This book examines, in great detail, the attack by 9 Para Bn of the British 6th Airborne Division on the German gun emplacement known as the Merville Battery on D-Day, 6 June 1944. The actions of 8 Para, 12 Para, Canadian 1 Para, attached engineer and support units, and commando raids in this area of Normandy are also told. In particular, the importance...