Beyond the Beach Book Review
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- Last updated: 29/08/2018
This book is an in-depth analysis of the often over-looked and controversial use of the Allied air forces against rail centres, ports, bridges, towns and cities in German occupied France in 1944. General Dwight D Eisenhower was Supreme Allied Commander during the D-Day landings and chose to use these bombing raids to soften up German positions but at the same time killed more than 60,000 innocent French civilians, what we now call ‘collateral damage’. This is a masterful work and details the human costs of war.
Stephen Alan Bourque
Naval Institute Press
978-1-61251- 873-2 (hardback)
978-1-61251- 874-9 (eBook)
Around £30