OMAHA BEACH: D-Day, June 6, 1944

Joseph Balkoski, . . Stackpole, $26.95 (410pp) ISBN 978-0-8117-0079-5

Balkoski (Beyond the Beachhead: The 29th Division in Normandy ) makes officer and enlisted-men's first-person testimony the center of this account, with light contextualization in between, along with 34 b&w photos and 27 maps. (Apr.)

FYI : Stackpole will distribute the alternate history Disaster at D-Day: The Germans Defeat the Allies, by U.S. Army National Ground Intelligence analyst Peter Tsouras. Greenhill, $19.95 paper (240p) ISBN 1-85367-603-9

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