To seal off the landing of seaborne troops on D-Day, Allied Command decided to drop three airborne divisions on either flank of the assault sector. To the east, the 6th British Airborne Division was assigned a mission to capture bridges over the river Orne, to blow up those over the river Dives, to [...]

French TextThis book related the epic clash between Scottish 15th Infantry Division and II SS-Panzer Korps which became a counterattack by the Germans towards the sea. This engagement in the Odon valley was part of Operation Epsom.The entire area of the battle is revisited here with a series of fasc[...]

June 6, 1944. In the gray light of dawn the landing craft carrying the assault wave of two US divisions as well as the Engineers and the Rangers, advanced toward the beach that was their assigned objective, code-named Omaha. Exhausted by the crossing and suffering from sea sicknesses, the assault un[...]

* A newly updated edition of this highly regarded volume on the Normandy landings and battles in English and French Heimdal's first Album Memorial appeared in July 1983, complete with over 1000 photographs, and proved to be a tremendous success. With all the information in both French and English, [...]

A full colour album packed with photos of the battle of the Falaise Pocket The battle of the Falaise Pocket, fought during World War II from 12 - 21 August 1944, was the decisive engagement of the Battle of Normandy. Taking its name from the area around the town of Falaise within which Army Group B[...]

This book presents the history of the famous Major Witzig, born on August 14, 1916, aspiring officer on April 1, 1935, head of the engineering section of the Fallschirm-Infantry Battalion in August 1938, with which he captured Fort Eben-Emael at dawn on May 10, 1940, capturing 1,200 soldiers with hi[...]