About the Author

Leo Marriott is a retired Air Traffic Controller who has had more than thirty books published on his specialist subjects: naval warfare and aviation. He is an experienced pilot and accomplished aerial photographer, and his work is featured in this book. Simon Forty was educated in Dorset and the north of England before reading history at London University's School of Slavonic and East European Studies. He has been involved in publishing since the mid-1970s, first as editor and latterly as author. Son of author and RAC Tank Museum curator, George Forty, he has continued in the family tradition writing mainly on historical and military subjects. Amongst other books, he is the author of The German Infantryman on the Eastern Front (with Richard Charlton Taylor, 2023) and Red Army into the Reich (with Nik Cornish, 2021), both published by Casemate, and has co-authored a range of highly illustrated books on the Normandy battlefields, the Atlantic Wall and the liberation of the Low Countries.

Reviews

Without doubt, this would be a most useful guide to have when touring the Normandy Battlefields, which it excels in explaining the complexities of the campaign, blow by blow, battle by battle. A must-read.
*Britain at War Magazine*

All those aerial shots and maps should be useful as reference for a more credible diorama bases...an excellent addition to your library.
*DetailScaleView*

The text is well presented and the result is a most useful guidebook to visiting the inland battles of the Normandy Campaign, some of which are often overlooked.
*Gun Mart*

I found this to be a well-balanced book, with an amazing array of photographs, supported by an unusually detailed narrative of the battle for a book of this nature. The authors have also avoided the trap of being drawn into the contemporary controversies about ‘slow progress’ or the post-war debates about the American and British contributions, and have instead focused more on the overall success of the campaign,
*History of War.org*

Messrs Forty and Marriott provide a seriously entertaining look at events in Normandy from ground level and all points upwards using the perfect mix of facts and dates aligned to genuinely excellent archive and modern photography. I cannot fault this book and thoroughly recommend it.
*War History Online*

For the sheer volume of information both textual and visual, this book is excellent value for money…as a work of reference it is invaluable and is strongly recommended to students of the NW Europe campaign.
*Fortress Studies Journal*

A very well presented, nicely designed and engaging book on a timeless subject; highly recommended.
*Editor - Model Boat World*

Essential reading for anyone with an interest in the military history of WW2 and specifically the D-Day landings. Amazing photographs and maps, this is a coffee table book you will not be able to put down! Marriott and Forty know their subject and share their expertise and knowledge in a way that's not been available in previous books about such a complex subject matter.
*Books Monthly*

This will appeal across a wide range of military tastes - the modeller, the military historian, the battlefield visitor, and the wargamer - and at a very fair price for a book of this calibre.
*Miniature Wargames - Chris Jarvis*