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Beevor, Antony. D-Day: The Battle for Normandy. New York: Viking Penguin, 2009. 591pp. $32.95
The 6 June 1944 Normandy invasion has received ample research over the years, with works by such noted historians as Cornelius Ryan, Stephen E. Ambrose, and Max Hastings. Known as Operation OVERLORD, it was by all accounts a pivotal event of the war in Europe. Hindsight clearly shows that ending Hitler's control of Europe required the Allies to meet the Wehrmacht in the field in mainland Europe.
So what can another book add to the canon on Normandy? Antony Beevor's meticulously written and researched D-Day: The Battle for Normandy might at first blush appear to be simply another treatise on the famed battle. Yet anyone who believes this to be so without reading it will miss out on sweeping narrative and credible research.
Beevor minces no words in telling the story...