2004 marks the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings. As a great blow to Hitler’s reign of terror over Europe, the landings are a key event in modern history. Almost every aspect of the assault has been written about from many different angles. There are books on the planning, on the attack itself, on the consequences, on the politics of coalition warfare and so on. But nothing brings to life the experience of the battle for the soldiers involved better than David Howarth’s Dawn of D-Day: These Men Were There. The book, released in paperback especially to mark the anniversary, reveals the power and the glory of the D-Day landings as recounted by the men who fought their way ashore. A tale told by a master of prose this account is among the best you’ll ever read of the greatest amphibious invasion ever. A book with more of an intellectual twist is Peter Tsouras’s alternate history. In Disaster at D-Day: The Germans Defeat the Allies Peter Tsouras has cleverly crafted an intriguing account of the D-Day landings going wrong. Astonishing in its realism, and thoughtful in its creativity, the book is a chilling tale of how Germany might have beaten off the Allies – and maintained their grip on Europe. Other Greenhill works which cover the campaign include Durnford-Slater’s Commando, Storm from the Sea by Peter Young and, from the German point of view, Rommel and his Art of War. Back to Greenhill Military Book News No. 126 Table of Contents Back to Greenhill Military Book News List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 2003 by Greenhill Books This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles from military history and related magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com