D-Day: 6 June 1944

By May 1944, more than 2.8 million Allied troops, with 4,000 American, British and
Canadian ships, were amassed in southern England, waiting to cross the English
Channel in the largest seaborne invasion of history. More that 1,200 planes stood
ready to deliver specialist airborne troops behind enemy lines, to silence German
ground resistance and destroy local infrastructure, and to dominate the skies of the
battle theatre.
D-Day provides a photographic exploration of this monumental military and political
event that helped bring about the end of Nazi Germany’s four-year occupation of
Europe. The book is divided into chapters covering the first days of the landings on
the five beaches: Omaha, Utah, Gold, Juno and Sword; separate chapters cover the
airborne landings of the famous American 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions and the
British 6th Airborne, as well as the crucial help of French Resistance fighters in
providing intelligence and disrupting German communications and supply lines.