D-Day — Antony Beevor

Beevor's account of the Normandy campaign draws on French, German, American, and British archives to give a more complete picture of the invasion than accounts focused solely on the Allied perspective. He is particularly attentive to the experience of Norman civilians — killed in large numbers by Allied bombing, their relationship to liberation more complicated than the standard narrative acknowledges — and to the weeks of grinding attrition in the bocage after the initial landings, which most popular accounts treat as a footnote to the beaches.

A Sunday Times number one bestseller. 'The definitive account of D-Day and the Normandy campaign. Beevor combines scholarship with a novelist's ear for the telling detail.' — Max Hastings. 'Superb. Beevor writes military history better than anyone alive.' — Daily Telegraph