From established historian James Holland, this is the top ten bestselling and second biggest history book of 2019.
James Holland is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning
historian, writer, and broadcaster. The author of a number of
best-selling histories including most recently The Savage Storm and
Cassino '44, he is also the author of ten works of fiction and a
dozen Ladybird Experts.
He is the co-founder of the annual Chalke Valley History Festival
which is now in its twelfth year, and he has presented - and
written - many television programmes and series for the BBC,
Channel 4, National Geographic and the History and Discovery
channels.
With Al Murray, he has a successful Second World War podcast, We
Have Ways of Making You Talk, which also has its own festival, and
is a research fellow at St Andrew's University and a Fellow of the
Royal Historical Society. He can be found on Twitter as @James1940
and on Instagram as @jamesholland1940.
As an account of this mighty and vitally significant clash of
armies, Normandy ’44 stands as richly impressive, hard to
surpass
*William Boyd, TImes Literary Supplement*
A superb account of the invasions that deserves immense praise…To
convey the human drama of Normandy requires great knowledge and
sensitivity. Holland has both in spades
*The Times*
An invigorating new history of the Allied invasion of France
*Strong Words Magazine*
A readable account of one of the 20th century's most defining
battles provides a strategic overview enlivened by personal
accounts of the horror ... for the general reader there are plenty
of surprises
*The i*
An impressive new account of D-Day ... Holland knows his stuff when
it comes to military matters ... he reads the minds of the
generals, their tactics, their blunders - on both sides
*Daily Mail*
Laced with firsthand accounts...the book provides an invaluable
narrative
*Who Do You Think You Are Magazine*
A powerful account of the invasion
*The Times*
Any past criticism of General Montgomery’s leadership and tactics
is put into a fresh focus … armed with the newly-presented facts we
are able to make sense of the broader picture
*Best of British*
An epic telling of the Normandy invasion … one of Britain’s
foremost military historians
*Warships*
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