By: Nigel Cawthorne

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Fighting Them On The Beaches tells the story of one of the largest and most meticulously organised seaborne invasions in the history of warfare- the Allied landings of June 6, 1944: D-Day.

As the parachutists and glider troops of the US and British airborne divisions went in on the night of June 5. Allied shipping began massing out in the Channel.

As dawn broke on June 6, waves of assault craft hit the Normandy beaches. British, American, Canadian, Polish and Free French troops began to stream ashore to storm the defences of the Atlantic Wall in the teeth of the overwhelming enemy fire-power.

By midnight on D-Day 150, 000 Allied troops were ashore and the process of consolidating the beachheads and pushing inland had begun.

Introduction
Part One: Building Up To Invasion
1. The War At Large
2. The Atlantic Wall
3. The War Of Secrets
4. The Allied Forces

Part Two: Operation Overload
5. The Airborne Assaults
6. Sword Beach
7. Juno Beach
8. Gold Beach
9. Omaha Beach
10. Utah Beach

Part Three: Towards Victory In Europe
11. Falaise And After
12. The Success Of The Second Front
Bibliography
Index Of Armies, Battles, Campaigns And Commanders

ISBN: 9781841931135
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 240
Published: 1st January 2010