Max Hastings-Operation Overlord. How the second front was opened. Gift book bound in leather

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The book describes the largest amphibious operation of the Second World War — the landing of Anglo-American troops in the summer of 1944 in Northern France, examines the actions of both the Western Allies and the Nazi command and troops at various stages of the operation.The book by M. Hastings is based mainly on American, English and West German sources about the Allied fighting in Northwestern France, and especially in Normandy. Along with these, the author used unpublished materials stored in state, departmental and private archives, his notes of conversations with the participants of Operation Overlord, their diaries and memoirs.