Six Armies in Normandy
From DDay to the Liberation of Paris, June 6thAugust 25th, 1944

The six armies that clashed in the Normandy campaign of July and August 1944 included, on the Allied side, military forces of Great Britain, Canada, Free France, Poland, and the United States of America. They were arrayed against the German army of Hitler’s Nazi regime – an army that had had years o......more

Hadtörténet iránt érdeklődni és Keegant nem olvasni olyan, mint állatkertbe menni és nem nézni meg a rájasimogatót. Meg lehet csinálni, de akkor meg minek mentél el egyáltalán? Egyfelől az angolszász történészek körében alap, hogy olvasmányosan írnak: a történelmi tudás náluk nem elit klub, ahová cs......more

-Más que sobre el desembarco de Normandía, de Overlord en general y del camino hacia la toma de París en particular.- Género. Historia. Lo que nos cuenta. Con un par de recuerdos y reflexiones muy personales del autor como prólogo y conclusión, narración desde el Día D hasta la entrada de la División......more

In general I am not a big fan of Keegan. It isn't that his stuff is bad, just that it doesn't usually lie in the direction of what it is that I want to read, or that when I do read his books they don't leap out with information that hasn't been presented elsewhere equally well. There are exceptions......more

John Keegan's reputation needs no embellishment from me. He is a first-rate military historian of the highest order. Six Armies in Normandy simply pads his resume. Keegan takes a somewhat different slant on telling the story of Normandy. He takes the battle beyond the D-Day invasion right through the......more