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Normandy 1944: starting points

Four starting points for the Normandy 1944 campaign: two single-volume histories of the whole battle, and an Osprey Campaign title covering the Gold and Juno beach markers on our map.

  1. 01

    D-Day: The Battle for Normandy

    Antony Beevor, Penguin, 2019 (75th anniversary edition; first published 2009)

    A single-volume history of the landings and the fighting that followed, drawing on archives in six countries.

    Checked: Penguin

  2. 02

    Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944

    Max Hastings, Pan Macmillan, 2024 edition (first published 1984)

    An account of the ten-week campaign built from eyewitness testimony on both sides.

    Checked: Pan Macmillan

  3. 03

    Normandy '44

    James Holland, Corgi, 2020 paperback (first published 2019)

    A full campaign history covering the landings through to the closing of the Falaise pocket.

    Checked: Corgi

  4. 04

    D-Day 1944 (4): Gold & Juno Beaches

    Ken Ford, Osprey Publishing, Campaign series, 2002

    Covers British 50th Division's landing on Gold and Canadian 3rd Division's landing on Juno, the two eastern beach markers on our campaign map.

    Checked: Osprey Publishing, Campaign series