"First published in Great Britain by Penguin Books Ltd 2009 ; First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2009 ; Published in Penguin Books (UK) 2010 ; Published in Penguin Books (USA) 2010 ; This edition with a new foreword published 2019"--Title page verso

D-Day 75th anniversary edition: Foreword -- The decision -- Bearing the cross of Lorraine -- Watch on the Channel -- Sealing off the invasion area -- The airborne assault -- The armada crosses -- Omaha -- Utah and the airborne -- Gold and Juno -- Sword -- Securing the beachheads -- Failure at Caen -- Villers-Bocage -- The Americans on the Cotentin Peninsula -- Operation Epsom -- The battle of the Bocage -- Caen and the Hill of Calvary -- The final battle for Saint-Lô -- Operation Goodwood -- The plot against Hitler -- Operation Cobra : breakthrough -- Operation Cobra : breakout -- Brittany and Operation Bluecoat -- The Mortain counter-attack -- Operation Totalize -- The hammer and anvil -- The killing ground of the Falaise pocket -- The Paris uprising and the race for the Seine -- The liberation of Paris -- Aftermath

From critically acclaimed world historian Antony Beevor, this is the first major account in more than twenty years to cover the whole invasion from June 6, 1944, right up to the liberation of Paris on August 25. It is the first book to describe not only the experiences of the American, British, Canadian, and German soldiers, but also the terrible suffering of the French caught up in the fighting

Royal United Services Institute Medal for Military Literature, 2010