From the Book - First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
A world at war. War begins --
Building the Atlantic Wall --
The transportation plan --
Keep calm and carry on --
Spring in Normandy with the Germans --
The D-Day weather forecast --
The landing. A note on chronology and military terminology --
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's order of the day --
Operation Coup de Main --
The 6th Airborne arrives in Normandy --
The paratrooper skytrain --
Night in the hedgerows --
Liberation comes to Sainte-Mère-Église --
In the air over the beaches --
Heading ashore at Utah --
The second wave at Utah --
The Rangers at Pointe du Hoc --
Into the devil's garden --
Getting off Omaha Beach --
Afloat off Omaha Beach --
Jig sector, Gold Beach --
The Green Howards take King sector --
The end of D-Day. Holding the eastern flank --
The Battle of La Fière Bridge --
Afternoon for the Germans --