Utah Beach: The Amphibious Landing and Airborne Operations on D-Day, June 6, 1944

"A first-class history, impeccably researched and skillfully written . . . by the foremost historian of the American D-Day experience." -Naval History



Added to the invasion plan largely at the insistence of British General Bernard Montgomery, the attack at Utah Beach aimed to secure the Cotentin Peninsula and ultimately seize the port of Cherbourg. Although the assault on Utah Beach became one of the most successful American military operations of World War II, it was fraught with risk from...