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Ullstein Bilderdienst.

BBC Hulton Picture Library

A classic propaganda image of liberators and liberated; in fact, the attitude of most Norman civilians to the Allies ranged between numbed indifference and sullen hostility.
BBC Hulton Picture Library

Field Marshal von Kluge.

Collins of U.S. VII Corps with von Schlieben, the captured commander of Cherbourg.
Imperial War Museum

Devastation: a typical Norman street scene in the summer of 1944.
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German Volksgrenadier on the Western Front.
Ullstein Bilderdienst.

The battlefield: a striking view of the difficulty of movement among the closely-set farmyards of the Norman villages, ideal for defence. The bespectacled figure in the back of the bren-gun carrier is the author’s father, war correspondent for
Picture Post. BBC Hulton Picture Library

A classic portrait of the British infantryman in Normandy.
BBC Hulton Picture Library

 

First published 1984 by Michael Joseph Limited

First published as an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Ltd 1993 by Papermac

This edition published 2010 by Pan Books

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Copyright © Max Hastings 1984

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