Ken Carter and Pete Johnstove, Southwick House.Lesley Burton, D-Day Our Great Enterprise (Gosport Society, 1984).George Bruce, Second Front Now! The Road to D-Day (Macdonald & Jane’s, 1979).Grace Bradbeer, The Land Changed Its Face (Devon, 1973).Beamish, D-Day: Poole (Poole Borough Council, 1984) The Anglo-American Effort 1943-1945 (unpublished, 2010) Bates, Sea, Swell and Surf Forecasting for D-Day and Beyond. A landmark oral history of D-Day on the home front (Hodder & Stoughton, 2014) The Fall, The Helford and D-Day (Landfall Publications, 1994) Viv Acton and Derek Carter, Operation Cornwall 1940-1944.Veterans’ memoirs, oral history and personal experiences.Commanders’ memoirs, biographies and autobiographies.Mulberry harbours, PLUTO and other engineering subjects.Naval aspects of D-Day, including Operation Neptune.Deception plans and Operation Fortitude.If you have a book that is not on this list and would like to offer it to us, please do get in touch. Note that books are only listed in one place on this page, but are often relevant to more than one section. If a book is missing from this list it does not mean that it is not worth reading, just that the museum does not own a copy. We regret they are not available for lending. They can be consulted by prior appointment for reference only. The D-Day Story archives contain copies of the books listed below. Hundreds of books have been published on D-Day and the Battle of Normandy, and even more on the Second World War in general. They were issued in thick booklets by Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, the Allied Naval Commander. These are the orders for Operation Neptune, the naval part of Operation Overlord.
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