Atlas of the European Campaign

Featuring scores of painstakingly researched and intricately detailed maps, this stunning, luxuriously bound book displays and explains the campaigns on the most famous theatre of war in history the European Theatre of World War II.In June 1944 the Allies opened the long-awaited second front against Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, and this was to be the start of a long struggle throughout Western Europe for the Allied forces in the face of stiff German resistance. The European Theatre was where the bulk of the Allied forces were committed in the struggle against Nazi Germany. It saw some of the most famous battles and operations of the war Normandy, Market Garden, the Battle of the Bulge as the Allies sought to liberate Western Europe in the face of bitter and hard-fought German resistance.From the beaches of D-Day through to the final battles in war-ravaged Germany, the war across the breadth and depth of Western Europe is brought to life through scores of carefully researched and intricately detailed maps.