by Max Hastings · LA ESFERA DE LOS LIBROS, S.L. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788413840239
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On June 6, 1944, American and British troops staged the largest amphibious landing in history to begin Operation Overlord, the battle to liberate Europe from the scourge of the Third Reich. With harrowing realism and immediacy, Hastings reveals the terrible human cost of this battle. Going beyond the assault on Omaha Beach and D-Day, he explores the Allied push inland, with many British and American infantry units suffering nearly 100% casualties over the course of that terrible summer. Far from a romantic memoir, Hastings details a grueling ten-week battle to defeat the superbly trained and geographically entrenched German Wehrmacht. Uncompromising and with a powerful description of wartime, this is the definitive book on D-Day and the Battle of Normandy where he questions and dismantles many legends by gathering the accounts of eyewitnesses and survivors from both sides, in addition to a wealth of previously unexplored sources and documents.
Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings is a British journalist and military historian who has worked as a foreign correspondent for the BBC, editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph, and editor of the Evening Standard. He is also the author of thirty books, most significantly histories, which have won several major awards. Hastings currently writes a bimonthly column for Bloomberg Opinion and contributes to The Times and The Sunday Times.
