Guides
Operation Overlord: The Battle of Normandy, June to August 1944
The Normandy campaign from 6 June to 30 August 1944: the landings, the fight for Caen, the bocage, the breakout and the Falaise pocket, with the places you can still visit linked throughout.
The Atlantic Wall Batteries of Normandy
The German coastal batteries that defended the invasion coast - which survive, what they held, and which are worth your time.
Visiting the D-Day Beaches in a Day
A practical west-to-east route along all five landing beaches, from Utah to Sword, for visitors with a single day in Normandy.
Where to See the Mulberry Harbour at Arromanches
The prefabricated harbour that supplied the invasion - what remains, and how best to see it.
Sainte-Mère-Église & the American Airborne
The first town liberated, the flooded causeways, and the sites of the US airborne drop behind Utah Beach.
Juno Beach: The Canadian Sector
Canada's D-Day beach, the museum that tells its story, and the towns the Canadians liberated.
Pegasus Bridge & the British Airborne Landings
How British glider troops seized the Orne bridges in the first action of D-Day, and the sites that tell the story.
The War Cemeteries of Normandy
American, German, British and Canadian - the resting places of those who fell in the Battle of Normandy.
Omaha Beach: A Visitor's Guide
The essential sites around the bloodiest of the landing beaches, from the American Cemetery to Pointe du Hoc.