5/19/2023 0 Comments D-Day by Antony BeevorIf there was too much cloud cover, the Allied bombers wouldn’t be able to provide air support, and if the seas were too rough, the landing craft would be swamped. Eisenhower, but it hinged on one factor: the weather. The decision of when to launch rested with supreme commander General Dwight D. The stakes could not have been higher: if Operation Overlord were to fail, it would be a crushing blow to the Allies, a huge loss of both men and equipment. In D-Day: The Decision to Launch, excerpted from Antony Beevor’s bestselling book D-Day: The Battle for Normandy, readers get the little-known story of how the difficult decision was made to launch the Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944. The little-known drama of the last-minute decision to launch the invasion of Normandy-excerpted from the internationally bestselling D-Day: The Battle for Normandy
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