Overlord D Day And The Battle For Normandy by Max Hastings - 1984

New York: Simon & Schuster. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1984. First Printing. Hardcover. 0671460293 .

Simon & Schuster, 1984. Hardcover. Good +/very good.

Simon & Schuster. Very Good. 2019. 1st Edition Thus. Softcover. 1982110775 . Small scuff upper corner of front cover. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 368 pages; 32398 .

London, Michael Joseph,1984.. First UK Edition; Large 8vo; pp. (2), 368; endpaper maps, 11text maps, 12 line drawings, numerous photographic illustrations, notes and references, appendices, bibliography, index, original black cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, tipped in associated material to half title page and rear endpaper, previous owner's description to half title page, verso, title page and verso of title page, price clipped, otherwise a very good copy.

London, Michael Joseph 1984.. 368pp. Large 8vo. B/w plates. Original boards in dustwrapper, a very good copy.. First edition.

London, Guild Publishing, (1984).. 8vo; pp. 368; map endpapers, maps, 12 pages of b/w plates, notes and references, appendices, bibliography, index; original cloth, dustjacket; a fine copy.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984. 368pp, index, bibliography, appendices, notes/references,bw ills, maps. Or boards in jacket. Prev owners stamp on title page, slight edge wear to jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London England: Book Club Associates. Very Good/Good. 1984. 1st Book Club Associates. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hardcover Hardback. . On 6th June 1944, the British and American armies staged the greatest amphibious landing in history to begin Operation OVERLORD, the battle for the liberation of Europe. Forty years on, with a wealth of untapped sources and documents now available, Max Hastings has made a new study of D-Day and the devastating battle for Normandy that followed. It overturns a hose of traditional legends. The post-war generation grew up to regard the invastion as a great feat of Allied arms. Yet the Germany army, vastly outgunned and facing absolute Allied control of sea and air, fought one of the most skilful and courageous defensive battles of the Second World War. Much of the post-war controversy surrounding Normandy has focussed upon the conduct of the generla.s This book argues that it was not Allied plans that failed, but the ability of… Read More

Overlord, D-Day and the Battle for Normandy, Hastings, Max. Published by Michael Joseph, London 1984. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 368 pages with black and white photographs, maps, appendices, references, bibliography and index, Black boards with gilt spine titles and mapped endpapers. Jacket is clipped and otherwise fine; contents in mint condition. "On June 6, 1944, the American and British armies staged the greatest amphibious landing history to being Operation Overlord, the battle for the liberation of Europe. Despite the Allies' absolute command of sea and air and vast firepower, it took ten weeks of fierce fighting for them to overpower the tenacious, superbly skilled German army. Now, forty years later, British war correspondent and military historian Max Hastings has drawn on many interviews and newly available documents to construct a dense, dramatic portrait of the Normandy invasion that overturns the traditional legends."

London: Guild Publishing, 1984. 1st ed. thus. Fine. octavo. dust jacket 368pp., b/w pls., maps, appends., references, bibliog., index, Largely based on extensive interviews with German Staff Officers and Tank & Infantry Soldiers. Usual quality Hastings narrative history