Expanded edition with a new chapter on the final battles of the Normandy campaign.

Engaging history of a controversial World War II battle. Brilliantly researched and compellingly written by a top military historian.

By 1945, the US Army had sixty-eight infantry divisions, forty-two of which fought in the great campaign in northwest Europe that began with the amphibious land

This startling survivors' account of a division of G.I. heroes tells how they fought their way into military history--beyond Omaha Beach and into the bloody cam

Balkoski's depiction of 'Bloody Omaha' is the literary accompaniment to the white-knuckle Omaha Beach scene that opens Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan. -