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| Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy, 1944 (Pan Grand Strategy Series) | 
 enlarge | Author: Max Hastings
Publisher: Pan Books
Category: Book
List Price: £7.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 13361
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 464
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 4.9 x 1.3
ISBN: 0330390120
Dewey Decimal Number: 355
EAN: 9780330390125
ASIN: 0330390120
Publication Date: August 13, 1999
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 Overtaken by better books March 3, 2005
10 out of 14 found this review helpful
This book might have been considered top class a dozen years ago but it has been superseded by many others since. Hastings is guilty of many assumptions about the fighting qualities of British and Canadian soldiers that have been demonstrated to be wrong by Terry Copp's magnificent work on the Canadians in Normandy - Fields of Fire. For a single volume history of the planning and execution of the invasion you could not do better than read Normandy 1944: The Road to Victory by Richard Doherty.
 Vintage Hastings November 20, 2002
23 out of 28 found this review helpful
For military history buffs this is Max Hastings at his best (a good historian whose conservative politics don't intrude). The books covers the build-up in early 1944, then takes us through the invasion in it’s various phases culminating with the German collapse and retreat in August. Hastings's questions are fascinating. Why did the Germans not collapse faster, given allied air power and superiority in manpower and guns? Why were their small formations so effective, and why was morale so high (even though most officers knew the war was lost)? It’s highly readable stuff with excellent maps, and provides a nice balance between personal narrative (largely from soldiers' correspondence) and the big picture.
a rare find, it gives you both sides of the battle November 28, 2001
38 out of 40 found this review helpful
After reading 3 previous books about the D-day invasion, I can finally say that I won't be buying any more after reading this one. Other historians write as well as Max Hastings, but none have included both the perspective from the Allies as well as the Germans. When you put this book down, you'll have the experience of truly understanding what it was like to be in Northern France in 1944, and not only in the staff rooms of the generals involved, but also what the average private had to endure, in both armies. Anyone who is interested in this topic and doesn't read "Overlord" by Hastings is really missing out. Its money well spent.
excellent historical treatise December 5, 1999
24 out of 27 found this review helpful
I am an italian fanatic of the battle of Normandy who read a lot of books on this subject and I must say that this is my preferit book because it's the only who recreates in a detailed way,from the strategic to the tactical point of view(in particular way) the war between two different sides . When you arrive at the end of it you have really a complete vision of the difficulties of a battle that only on the russian front has been of a such intensity.It's a book similar to the books of Cornelius ryan but much more deep ,if you interest the war in Normandy and you want the best buy it.
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