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

  1. Band of Brothers

  2. D-Day: The Battle for Normandy

  3. D-Day: June 6, 1944

  4. The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1944-1945

  5. The First Wave: The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II -

  6. Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis - The second volume of a biography of the German dictator, providing insight into the Fuhrerhauptquartier during the invasion

  7. 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

  8. The Invasion Before Normandy: The Secret Battle of Slapton Sands

  9. Memoirs of the Second World War

  10. Monty: The Lonely Leader, 1944-1945

  11. Overlord

  12. Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944

  13. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

  14. Roosevelt’s Centurions: FDR and the Commanders He Led to Victory in World War II

  15. The Second Most Powerful Man in the World

  16. The Second World War

  17. Six Armies in Normandy

  18. 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.

  19. Voices of D-Day

  20. The War Between the Generals: Inside the Allied High Command

Online Sources

  1. Cross-Channel Attack -

  2. Normandy -

  3. St. Lo -

  4. Utah Beach to Cherbourg -

  5. 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

  1. June 6, 1944 - The Light of Dawn -

  2. Veterans Describe What it was Really Like to be a Soldier on D-Day -

Image Sources

  1. US National Archives - Contains large numbers of photographs of Manila during the US/Commonwealth era.

  2. Wikimedia Commons - Contains a vast number of photographs in an easily searchable format with clear licensing information.

  3. US Naval History and Heritage Command - Containing various photographs of Operation Neptune and related activites

The above sources were utilized without any type of explicit authorization from their creators. This project is an original work using information gained from the above cited sources.