The action by the US Rangers is the stuff of legends but in an operation that has been mythologised and in the process has been badly distorted. This book goes back to original documents: orders, reports and first-hand accounts to establish the story of the three separate Ranger Forces that made-up Rudder’s Rangers who assaulted not just Pointe du

Paul Reed’s latest battlefield walking guide covers the site of the largest amphibious invasion of all time, the first step in the Allied liberation of France and the rest of northwest Europe. The...

On D Day, 6th June 1944 the greatest seaborne assault ever was launched against Hitler's Fortress Europe onto the beaches of Normandy. This battlefield guide tells in detail, how these objectives were...