Best books on D-Day and the Normandy Campaign?

Angie999 - OK, thanks for those. I thought I'd ask so that I didn't waste what little money I've got on trash!
I did have 'Pegasus Patrol', which included the Corps of Military Police's role at Arnhem; I lent it to someone and it is now MIA

 

Originally posted by Lee@May 30 2004, 09:13 AM
Ryan - You're as good here as you are on the GWF, many thanks mate
Thanks Lee B)

And just for that I shall share with you a page from the Gold Beach book...I think you can just about read it all. If you want it better email me

Ryan

 

Ryan - Thanks, and I can read it, must be the super-dooper glasses I've got

 

Also good is Joe Balkoski's "Beyond the Beachhead," which is a history of the 29th Infantry Division in Normandy, from training to Omaha and to St. Lo.

There's another title I can't remember, "No End Save Victory," I think, which is contemporary accounts of the build-up and battle.

Samuel Eliot Morison's "Invasion of France and Germany" and "Cross-Channel Attack" are the American official histories, and they are very good.

"The Victory Campaign" is the Canadian Official History.

The Australian and New Zealand official WW2 air histories cover their part of the show in Normandy.