SWORD D-DAY TRIAL BY BATTLE

READ ABOUT THE TRIUMPHS AND TRAGEDIES OF THE COMMAND BRIGADE ON A SINGLE BRITISH BEACH AND BEYOND DURING THE D-DAY INVASION OF NORMANDY

- Max Hastings

Coinciding with the 80th anniversary of VE Day, veteran war historian Max Hastings offers the reader an in-depth look into the experiences of a relatively small number of men, on a single day that was to become almost certainly the most memorable of their lives.

It is the story of a baptism of fire, in which Hastings describes how 35,000 British soldiers played a critical role in the D-Day invasion of the beaches of Normandy.