![]() ![]() Today, those beaches-and Normandy as a whole-are places of tranquil peace and beauty, but back on 6 June 1944 they were the scene of the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted, and one of barely imaginable violence and carnage. But what constitutes “best”? The best work of history? The best memoir of what it was like to be there on that extraordinary day, whether attacker or defender? Or best overview that tells the reader everything he or she needs to know about what happened, how it happened, and why? In this list, I’m attempting to cover all bases: there is balanced analysis but also plenty of human drama, too-after all, it is trying to imagine what it must have been like, whether jumping out of an airplane, or landing craft, or defending a bunker, or flying overhead, or out at sea, or being a civilian caught up in the middle of the invasion, that draws most people to the subject. ![]() There are, of course, a very large number of books that have been written about D-Day, but equally, there are unquestionably some that really do stand out above the rest. ![]()
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