D-day: the Battle for Normandy

The decision

Bearing the cross of Lorraine

Watch on the Channel

Sealing off the invasion area

The airborne assault

The armada crosses

Omaha

Utah and the airborne

Gold and Juno

Sword

Securing the beachheads

Failure at Caen

Villers-Bocage

The Americans on the Cotentin Peninsula

Operation Epsom

The battle of the Bocage

Caen and the Hill of Calvary

The final battle for Saint-Lô

Operation Goodwood

The plot against Hitler

Operation Cobra : breakthrough

Operation Cobra : breakout

Brittany and Operation Bluecoat

The Mortain counter-attack

Operation Totalize

The hammer and anvil

The killing ground of the Falaise pocket

The Paris uprising and the race for the Seine

The liberation of Paris

Aftermath