D‐Day, by Those Who Were There

Over 160,000 service personnel landed on the Normandy beaches on D‐Day, 6 June, 1944, and every one of those surviving will have his own impressions and memories of that historic day. Ask any two veterans who were in the same platoon or unit about their memories and you would get two different versions. In this book, Dr. Peter Liddle, director of The Second World War Experience Centre at Horsforth, Leeds, UK, has encapsulated the recollections of over 150 of those who were there. The Second World War Experience Centre was set up a few years ago by Dr. Liddle and...