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Summary: Gentlemen now abed will think themselves accursed they
Review: didn't buy this book earlier!!! Absolutely top notch history of the special sea-bourne American units at Normandy. Maps & photos and narrative all combine into an informative and captivating tale. Even if you are a D-Day buff with a large reference library, you will learn much from this excellent edition. It seems pricey, but it is worth all of it & more. You will not regret getting this one!
I hope this sets a pattern for books about the British & Canadian units and their efforts and successes that day. When you realise the scope of just the American beach landings, you will see the huge, multi-volume collection that would be needed to address *all* the units involved. Buy it and and spend some time with it.
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Summary: Brings D-Day visually to life
Review: Gawne's over-sized book is packed with photos and illustrations that bring D-Day visually to life. Although nicely laid out, its pages are dense with both text and visuals. This is a BIG book that gives one the sense of the fog being lifted over the channel for a clear view. One can spend many hours browsing the pages and drinking it all in.
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Summary: An amazingly excellent book!
Review: I just bought this book the other day and I must say that it's an amazing book filled with info and plenty of great photos. I haven't even seen a lot of the material in this book ever before and I have done a fair amount of research on D-Day. Bottom line this is a great book!
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Summary: Color Photos are Great!
Review: I really enjoyed this book. The photo foldouts are really great-they feature reenactors in full dress. This book provides for a great reference to anyone interested in a Grunt or special operations uniform.The text is also good, although alittle too technical at times. Overall, a great reference book for any WWII reenactor.
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Summary: Something NEW on D-Day? Is that possible?
Review: Just when you think that this is another re-hashing off all the often-copied stuff that's in every D-Day book you've ever seen...
Guess again, Skippy. This isn't your Daddy's D-Day book!
Gawne thankfully dusted off UNPUBLISHED information on largely ignored subjects regarding the Normandy landings, and I for one am glad to have this book in my collection.
Amphibious forces, Engineers and even Navy Beach Masters were all there, but you never see them in other books. Gawne takes previously unknown information, couples it with outstanding graphics and puts them together in THE BEST book on the subject to come out since.... well, I can't say when another such book was ever written!
And even though I'm a huge Airborne fan, I have to say this:
"Thanks, Jon, for not having half the book on Airborne forces! We needed another book on the subject like we needed more holes in our heads!"
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Summary: Most Authoritative D-Day Book
Review: My father was a D-Day medical officer June 6, 1944. Historians who write definitive books about Americans at D-Day and fail to mention the Army/Navy gap assault teams, LCI sailors, Army Engineer Special Brigades and attached Naval Beach Battalions, have left out the "backbone" of the Normandy invasion. Jonathan Gawne's Spearheading D-Day: American Special Units in Normandy set the record straight in 1998. Military authors should not feel bad if their books were published before Spearheading D-Day. Up to 1992, when Gawne first wrote about the "forgotten sailors of the invasion beaches," most naval historians were unaware that their own were some of the first ashore on D-Day. Spearheading D-Day, covering American forces in France, is simply the best invasion book published since Cornelius Ryan's The Longest Day.
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Summary: Better than I could have dreamed
Review: THE best book on D-day I have ever seen. Units and events I never knew existed. Great NEW research. Photos with correct captions, unlike the other books that just copy from each other. I love the layout with the mix of text, wartime photos, color photos of equipment and diagrams. Please write more like this one! Probably the most important book on D-day since "The Longest Day." I kid you not. This one will make every other Normandy author squirm when they see the errors in their books corrected. Go see for yourself. (oh, and its really big).
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Summary: Excellent resource
Review: THIS BOOK COVERS SOME OF THE LESSER KNOWN UNITS WHO TOOK PART IN D-DAY SUCH AS THE NAVAL BEACH BATTALIONS AND ENGINEER UNITS AS WELL AS RANGERS/INFANTRY ETC,WITH MANY NEVER SEEN BEFORE PICTURES OF THE MEN WEAPONS AND EQUIPMENT USED IN THE ASSAULT ON HITLERS FORTRESS.ALSO SOME VERY GOOD REINACTMENT PICTURES OF THE UNIFORMS THAT THE ASSAULT TROOPS WORE, BEING A COLLECTOR OF WWII U.S EQUIPMENT I FOUND THESE VERY INFORMATIVE INDEED.SUMMING UP THIS BOOK IS ONE OF THE VERY BEST AND INFORMATIVE REFERENCES OF WWII THAT I HAVE READ IN A LONG TIME A MUST FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN THE SUBJECT
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Summary: The Ultimate "D-Day" Book
Review: This is the most complete, most carefully researched, and most beautifully produced book about the D-Day landings that I have ever seen. Anybody who wants detailed and accurate information on these landings needs this book. Period.
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