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Authors: Max Hastings

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A British sniper pulls through while a young soldier grasps the most precious possession on the battlefield: sleep.
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Digging: literally a matter of life and death, as so many troops discovered at terrible cost.
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Exhaustion: a British doctor pauses between operations at a forward dressing station.
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Normandy was above all a battlefield of hedges and ditches, a succession of dashes between islands of cover, each one intensely dangerous for those making the movements.
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Behind the lines: Tommies make themselves at home in a Norman farmyard.
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The image of defeat: captured Germans and fallen horses. Note the pathetic attempt to camouflage the cart.
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Brutal encounter between a Norman shopkeeper and an abandoned Mk IV tank.
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Glimpses in Normandy of “the most professionally skilful army of modern times” as a distinguished American historian has recently described the Wehrmacht:

Rearming a Panther.

Self-propelled
Nebelwerfers
– of all German weapons, those most detested by Allied soldiers.

With
Panzerfaust,
their formidable close-quarter anti-tank weapon.

ADN.

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