Leo Marriott is a retired Air Traffic Controller who has had more than thirty books published on his specialist subjects: naval warfare and aviation. He is an experienced pilot and accomplished aerial photographer, and his work is featured in this book. Simon Forty was educated in Dorset and the north of England before reading history at London University's School of Slavonic and East European Studies. He has been involved in publishing since the mid-1970s, first as editor and latterly as author. Son of author and RAC Tank Museum curator, George Forty, he has continued in the family tradition writing mainly on historical and military subjects. Amongst other books, he is the author of The German Infantryman on the Eastern Front (with Richard Charlton Taylor, 2023) and Red Army into the Reich (with Nik Cornish, 2021), both published by Casemate, and has co-authored a range of highly illustrated books on the Normandy battlefields, the Atlantic Wall and the liberation of the Low Countries.
A particular aspect of the book that is worthy of note is the
photograph captions. A concerted effort has been made to identify
not only locations, but also the individuals contained within well
known photos - including in some cases their fate, during the
battle for Normandy.
*Recollections of World War II*
Many famous photographs are employed but the real selling point for
the book is the modern aerial views, which are superb. The maps are
also clear and precise.
*WW2 Connection 11/01/2014*
The Old Front Line by Stephen Bull and The Normandy Battlefields by
Leo Marriott & Simon Forty are absolutely superb guides to some of
the most important battlefields of the two world wars in Europe.
Both of them are books I wish I had written and illustrated.
*War History Online 12/01/2014*
A photographic history of the D-Day beaches really needs to have
something unusual about it to stand out in a crowded market. In
this case the main selling point is the good combination of wartime
and modern photos. The most effective of the modern photos are a
series of aerial photographs, each showing key parts of the
battlefield, and with modern war memorials marked. These give a
much clearer idea of the layout of the battlefield than the more
familiar ground level photos, and are of great interest.
*History of War*
The presentation of the book is first class, the maps especially.
It is a fitting tribute to the men who took part in the D-Day
landings, and I recommend it.
*Fortress Studies Journal 25/05/2015*
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