The Normandy Campaign 1944

With essays from leading names in military history, this new book re-examines the crucial issues and debates of the D-Day campaign.

1. The 21st Army Group in Normandy: Towards a New Balance Sheet 2. Controversy, Culture, Caen and Cherbourg: The First Week of the Battle 3. The 6th Airborne Division in Normandy 4. Operation Bluecoat - A Victory Ignored? 5. Timetable Acrobats, and the Dilemmas of Allied Operational Art: Operation Totalize, 8-11 August 1944 6. British Armoured Operations, June-August 1944 7. Ultra, Fortitude and Overlord: How Intelligence and Strategic Deception Shaped the Allied Invasion of France 8. Deception and the Planning of D-Day. Chapter 9. The 'Man Who Never Was' Part III: Air Power 10. Arthur Harris and Overlord 11. Arthur Tedder and the Transportation Plan 12. Caen: The Martyred City 13. The Luftwaffe's Campaign Against the Normandy Landings Part IV: The Experience of War Chapter 14. The British Soldier's Experience of Normandy 15. 'Good Hunting on the Mainland of Europe': Oral Memories of D-Day and Beyond 16. The Normandy Campaign in Newsreel and Documentary 17. American War Movies and the Perception of being at War - A Case Study of D-Day Films.