The Normandy Campaign 1944: Sixty Years On

by John Buckley (Editor)

With essays from leading names in military history, this new book re-examines the crucial issues and debates of the D-Day campaign.

It tackles a range of core topics, placing them in their current historiographical context, to present new and sometimes revisionist interpretations of key issues, such as the image of the Allied armies compared with the Germans, the role of air power, and the lessons learned by the military from their operations.

As the Second World War is increasingly becoming a field of revisionism, this book sits squarely within growing debates, shedding new light on topics and bringing current thinking from our leading military and strategic historians to a wider audience.

This book will be of great interest to students of the Second World War, and of military and strategic studies in general.

240 pages, Hardcover

First published January 31, 2006

About the author

John Buckley is Professor of Military History at the University of Wolverhampton, where he has taught and researched since 1992. He is the author and editor of a range of books on aspects of twentieth-century military history, air power, and conflict studies, including The RAF and Trade Defence, 1919-1945 (1995) Air Power in the Age of Total War (1999) and Monty's Men: The British Army and the Liberation of Europe 1944-5 (2013) which won the 2014 Templer Medal (awarded annually to the author of the book deemed to have made the most significant contribution to the history of the British Army).

Reviews

[Jonathan · Rating 5 out of 5]

A collection of essays on various aspects of the campaign in Normandy, 1944. D-Day and all that. It's a worthy addition to the historical literature, but it shouldn't be the first book you read on the campaign, if you are interested in this decisive and still-controversial battle. Read D'Este's and Hastings' books first. The fact that this book contains not a single map is a disgrace!