Normandy '44: D-Day and the Battle for France

Holland's new book, "The Savage Storm," offers a fresh perspective on D-Day and the Normandy campaign, challenging myths and revealing the brutality and violence of the war. Based on unseen archives and eye-witness testimonies, the book emphasizes the overwhelming size and scale of the Allies' war machine, recalibrating our understanding of its place in human history.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 864 pages
\n Publication date: 03 September 2020
\n Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Renowned World War Two historian James Holland presents an entirely new perspective on one of the most important moments in recent history, unflinchingly examining the brutality and violence that characterised the campaign. D-Day and the 76 days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed have come to be seen as a defining episode in the Second World War. Its story has been endlessly retold, and yet it remains a narrative burdened by both myth and assumed knowledge. In this reexamined history, James Holland presents a broader overview, one that challenges much of what we think we know about D-Day and the Normandy campaign. The sheer size and scale of the Allies' war machine ultimately dominate the strategic, operational, and tactical limitations of the German forces. Drawing on unseen archives and testimonies from around the world and introducing a cast of eye-witnesses, including foot soldiers, tank men, fighter pilots, and more, James Holland's epic telling profoundly recalibrates our understanding of its true place in the tide of human history.

The new, sweeping World War II book from James Holland, THE SAVAGE STORM, is available now.

\n Weight: 602g\n
Dimension: 128 x 196 x 47 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780552176118\n \n