D-Day Documents

Dr. Paul Winter studied at the University of Cambridge and is a freelance academic. He has published in major British academic journals, contributed to The Times and has appeared on BBC television and radio. He has previously published Defeating Hitler: Whitehall's Secret Report on Why Hitler lost the War with Bloomsbury.

War Diaries provide a uniquely vivid and immediate answer to the question that is foremost in the minds of so many students of military history -"What was it like to be there?". They are also the most powerful corrective to the inevitable historical drift towards myth and distortion, as the course of events unfolds. These D-Day Documents provide a compelling example of the importance of such diary records to the web and weave of history. -- Lieutenant-General Sir Hew Pike KCB DSO MBE President of the Airborne Assault Normandy Trust I recommend 'D-Day Documents' to all who wish to understand that momentous event from the point of view of those in the assaulting units. They tell us what they thought was important to record at the time; what they wanted us to remember. -- General Sir Rupert Smith KCB DSO OBE QGM Author of 'The Utility of Force' With the approach of the seventieth anniversary of the greatest Allied amphibious and airborne operation in history, it is fitting that Paul Winter has used the medium of regimental war diaries to remind us of how tough the fighting was. -- Major-General Julian Thompson RM, CB, OBE Author of No Picnic and Ready for Anything