D-Day Volume 1

PRELUDE — General George C. Marshall • OPERATION ‘OVERLORD’ — General Dwight D. Eisenhower • SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE — Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith • GERMAN DEFENCES — Oberst Bodo Zimmermann • ULTRA — Major Ralph Bennett • COMMAND DECISIONS — Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur W. Tedder • PLANS AND PREPARATIONS — General Sir Bernard Montgomery • AIR OPERATIONS FOR D-DAY — Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory • OK, LET’S GO? — General Dwight D. Eisenhower • OPERATION ‘NEPTUNE’ — Admiral Sir Bertram H. Ramsay • 6th AIRBORNE DIVISION — Major-General Richard Gale • SPECIAL DUTY OPERATIONS — Brigadier Roderick McLeod • D-DAY’S FIRST FATAL CASUALTY — Father Alberic Stacpoole • 82nd AIRBORNE DIVISION — Major General Matthew B. Ridgway • 101st AIRBORNE DIVISION — Major General Maxwell D. Taylor