D-Day Landing Beaches: The Guide

by Georges Bernage

Overview

This spectacular, large format, full color, new book is quite simply the most impressive book of its type we have seen. Packed with over 200 photographs, maps and charts, the book is divided into the sectors associated with the Normandy landings in 1944. What's more it is extremely reasonably priced.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9782840481379
Publisher:	Heimdal
Publication date:	05/04/2009
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 12.00(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

The historian Georges Bernage is one of France's premier experts on the 1944 Normandy Invasion. He has published over forty books on the subject since 1978.

Editorial Reviews

"Each section is accompanied by maps and plenty of photos which not only include archive pictures (some very well known) alongside modern day comparisons and what you see at the same spot today. Among the many bunkers, museums and memorials the book includes a good selection of very nice aerial photos showing a number of sites today. These include places like the Pointe du Hoc and the Longues sur Mer battery among many others. It rounds everything off with a brief summary of what happened in the few days following D-Day itself, and how the beachhead was consolidated. With appendices giving more information that includes a handy map of the main museum sites to be found all along the beachhead, this is a very useful guide to keep in the car with you if you are planning to visit the area for the first time. Another useful book from Heimdal and Georges Bernage for anyone interested in the Normandy battlefields."

Military Modelling

Each section is accompanied by maps and plenty of photos which not only include archive pictures (some very well known) alongside modern day comparisons and what you see at the same spot today. Among the many bunkers, museums and memorials the book includes a good selection of very nice aerial photos showing a number of sites today. These include places like the Pointe du Hoc and the Longues sur Mer battery among many others. It rounds everything off with a brief summary of what happened in the few days following D-Day itself, and how the beachhead was consolidated. With appendices giving more information that includes a handy map of the main museum sites to be found all along the beachhead, this is a very useful guide to keep in the car with you if you are planning to visit the area for the first time. Another useful book from Heimdal and Georges Bernage for anyone interested in the Normandy battlefields.

Military Modeling