D Day and the Normandy Campaign

You have seen the beach scenes and heard the numbers, but you still want to know what the longest day actually felt like — for the planner staring at a falling barometer, for the rifleman in the ramp of a landing craft, for the gunner in the concrete bunker above him.

This is the Normandy campaign made human. You follow the invasion from the agonising decision to sail, through the paratroopers scattered in the dark behind the flooded fields, onto the sand of Omaha and Gold, and into the hedgerow fighting that ground down two armies before the breakout finally came. Allied and German voices sit side by side, along with the French villagers who woke to find the war in their orchards.

By the end you understand not just what happened, but why it nearly failed and what it cost the men who made it work. Press play and step onto the beach with them.