Introduction -- Call to arms and gathering for d-day -- Launching the attack -- Battlefield isolated: help from the resistance and the SOE -- Dropping from the skies: British attack on the east flank -- Over the Atlantic wall: American airborne drop on the cotentin peninsula -- Crossing the channel: air and sea armadas -- Utah beach -- Rangers at the pointe -- 16th regiment at Omaha beach -- 116th regiment: into the jaws of hell -- British 2nd army at Gold, Juno, and Sword beaches -- Aftermath -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- Photo credits.

Published for the 60th anniversary of D-Day, this lushly illustrated volume with audio CDs presents gripping, firsthand accounts of the Normandy invasion with a central narrative by one of America's preeminent historians. A compelling compilation of firsthand accounts of the Normandy invasion presents forty remarkable oral histories that recount the events and experiences of D-Day from the perspectives of the veterans themselves, accompanied by a selection of interviews on CD.