OVERLORD: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944 by Hastings, Max - 1984

London, UK: Michael Joseph Ltd, 1984. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. On June 6, 1944, American and British troops staged the greatest amphibious landing in history to begin Operation Overlord, the battle to liberate Europe from the scourge of the Third Reich. With gut-wrenching realism and immediacy, Hastings reveals the terrible human cost that this battle exacted. Moving beyond just the storming of Omaha beach and D-Day, he explores the Allies' push inward, with many British and American infantry units suffering near 100 percent casualties during the course of that awful summer. Far from a gauzy romanticized remembrance, Hastings details a grueling ten week battle to overpower the superbly trained, geographically entrenched German Wehrmacht. Uncompromising and powerful in its depiction of wartime, this is the definitive book on D-Day and the Battle of Normandy. Fine,first edition, first printing, in fine, unclipped, mylar-protected dust jacket. (Dust wrapper is an export jacket: a first state, first printing jacket without the U.K retail price printed on the inside front flap, intended for export to, and pricing by, other English-speaking countries.] Copyright page of book states that it is the first edition: "First published in Great Britain by Michael Joseph Ltd, 44 Bedford Square, London WCI, 1984." [Not remainder-marked or price-clipped] NF60