Craig L Symonds

The invasion of Europe in 1944 and the victories that followed would not have been possible without the massive naval operation known as Neptune. Symonds traces the central thread of this Olympian event -- involving over five thousand ships and nearly half a million personnel -- from the first talks between British and American officials in the winter of 1941 to the storming of the beaches in the late spring of 1944. Neptune was the pinnacle of Allied...