Sand and Steel av Prof. Peter TD VR BA (Hons) PhD FRHistS FRGS KJ Caddick-Adams

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<b><u>The most comprehensive and authoritative history of D-Day ever published</u></b><br><br>‘Extraordinary’ <b>Andrew Roberts</b><br>‘Fascinating’ <b><i>Daily Mail</i></b><br>‘Magisterial’ <b>James Holland</b><br><b>________________</b><br><br><b><i>6 June 1944, 4 a.m. </i></b><br><br><i>Hundreds of boats assemble off the coast of Normandy. By nightfall, thousands of the men they carry will be dead.</i><br><br><i>Through their sacrifice, the Allies will gain a foothold in Europe that will ultimately lead to the downfall of the Third Reich.</i><br><br><i>This was D-Day, the most important day of the twentieth century.</i><br><b>________________</b><br><br><b>In <i>Sand and Steel</i>, one of Britain’s leading military historians draws on a decade of archival research and thousands of interviews to offer a panoramic new account of the Allied invasion of France.</b><br><br>Peter Caddick-Adams masterfully recreates what it was like to wade