Yagil Henkin
ASIN: B00KA0U6T0
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 148
Experience the greatest amphibious assault in the history of warfare through the eyes of those who made history on D-Day, June 6th, 1944, in the exact same places where they fought!As you walk a mile-long stretch of "Omaha Beach" in Normandy, this book will take you through the D-day invasion of occupied France, explaining it through the terrain you'll be walking and the stories of the people who fought exactly in those places on D-Day. You will start at the American military cemetery at St. Laurent-sur-mer; you will follow the allied and German planners through their respective plans, down to the "Colleville Draw".You will meet Franz Gockel and his fellow German soldiers of WN62 – the German stronghold which lays all the way from the 1st Infantry Division monument to the beach itself, and understand how they tried in vain to stop the invasion, and how did they feel facing the greatest ...