In this highly anticipated sequel to his acclaimed "Beyond the Beachhead", World War II historian Joseph Balkoski follows the U.S. 29th Infantry Division out of Normandy and into Brittany in the northwest corner of France, where the division was tasked with seizing the port of Brest. The Germans, in[...]

"Joseph Balkoski is the top living D-Day historian." --"USA Today" "Balkoski has fingertip command of his sources, and a sense of the dramatic that never loses touch with the brutal realities of combat." --Dennis Showalter, past president of the Society for Military History and author of "Patton and[...]

In this unforgettable narrative of "D-Day", Joseph Balkoski describes the minute-by-minute combat as it unfolded on Omaha Beach, allowing soldiers to speak for themselves as they recall their attempts to manoeuvre bombers through heavy cloud cover, the claustrophobic terror aboard transports, and th[...]