"The battle of Normandy was the most complex and daring military operation in the history of modern warfare. Two years of intense, detailed planning reached its successful conclusion when the Allied forces took the beaches on D-Day. But the seventy-six-day campaign rhat followed, the Allies' crucial bid for a toehold in western Europe, was one of the bloodiest of the war, and its true story has been concealed in myth."(From Inside Flap) 555 pages, including text, Epilogue, maps, illustrations, Postscript, Appendices, Sources and index.