The following is a list of all sources used by the author for the Normandy Campaign Project. It will be updated as necessary during the research and writing.
Print Sources
Ambrose, Steven
Band of Brothers
New York, NY: Simon & Schuster; 1992
Kershaw, Ian
The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1944-1945
New York, NY: Penguin Press; 2011.
Beevor, Anthony
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy
London, UK: Penguin Books, Ltd; 2009.
Kershaw, Alex
The First Wave: The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II
New York, NY: Penguin Random House, 2019.
Ambrose, Steven
D-Day: June 6, 1944
New York, NY: Touchstone; 1995.
Kershaw, Alex
Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis
New York, NY: WW Norton and Co., 2000
Speer, Albert
Inside the Third Reich
New York, NY: MacMillan; 1970
Horne, Alistair
Monty: The Loney Leader, 1944-1945
New York, NY: Harper Collins, 1994
Shirer, William L.
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
New York, NY: Crest Books; 1959
Gilbert, Martin
The Second World War: A Complete History
New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1989
Lewis, Jon E.
Voices from D-Day: Eyewitness Accounts from the Battle for Normandy
New York, NY: MJF Books; 2014
Hoyt, Edwin P.
The Invasion Before Normandy: The Secret Battle off Slapton Sands
Briarcliff Manor, NY: Stein and Day; 1985.
Hastings, Max
Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster; 1984
Persico, Joseph E.
Roosevelt’s Centurions: FDR and the Commanders He Led to Victory in World War II
New York, NY: Random House; 2013
Keegan, John
Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris
New York, NY: Penguin Books; 1982
Irving, David
The War Between the Generals: Inside the Allied High Command
New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press; 1981
Churchill, Winston S.
Memoirs of the Second World War
Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, 1959
Ambrose, Stephen E.
Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster; 1985
O’Brien, Phillips P.
The Second Most Powerful Man in the World: The Life of Admiral William D. Leahy, Roosevelt’s Chief of Staff
New York, NY: Dutton Books; 2019
Evans, Richard J.
The Third Reich at War
New York, NY: Penguin Press; 2009
Band of Brothers
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy
D-Day: June 6, 1944
The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1944-1945
The First Wave: The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II -
Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis - The second volume of a biography of the German dictator, providing insight into the Fuhrerhauptquartier during the invasion
Inside the Third Reich - An autobiography of German Armaments Minister Albert Speer, this provides an insider account, although it must be remembered the author had a vested interest in concealing his guilt in both the crimes and failure of National Socialism
The Invasion Before Normandy: The Secret Battle of Slapton Sands
Memoirs of the Second World War
Monty: The Lonely Leader, 1944-1945
Overlord
Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Roosevelt’s Centurions: FDR and the Commanders He Led to Victory in World War II
The Second Most Powerful Man in the World
The Second World War
Six Armies in Normandy
The Third Reich at War - The third volume of a general history of Nazi Germany, providing some context into the German perspective on the macro scale.
Voices of D-Day
The War Between the Generals: Inside the Allied High Command
Online Sources
Harrison, Gordon A.
Cross-Channel Attack
United States Army Center of Military History, 1951
Utah Beach to Cherbourg
United States Army Center for Military History, 1948
Hammond, William L.
Normandy
United States Army Center of Military History, 2019
Omaha Beachead
United States Army Center of Military History, 1945
St. Lo
United States Army Center of Military History, 1946
Cross-Channel Attack -
Normandy -
St. Lo -
Utah Beach to Cherbourg -
Omaha Beachhead -
Video Sources
June 6, 1944 - The Light of Dawn
Best Documentary - Youtube
2022
Veterans Describe What It Was Really Like To Be A Soldier On D-Day | D-Day Documentary | Timeline
Timeline: World History Documentaries - Youtube
2019
June 6, 1944 - The Light of Dawn -
Veterans Describe What it was Really Like to be a Soldier on D-Day -
Image Sources
US National Archives - Contains large numbers of photographs of Manila during the US/Commonwealth era.
Wikimedia Commons - Contains a vast number of photographs in an easily searchable format with clear licensing information.
US Naval History and Heritage Command - Containing various photographs of Operation Neptune and related activites