The story of one of the most dramatic and important battles of the Second World War is expertly related and explained by a leading historian, with detailed illustrations and supplementary facts.

Chris Brown holds a PhD in medieval military history from the University of St Andrews. He has designed and delivered numerous history and war studies courses for the OLL department at Edinburgh University. He has travelled extensively through Asia, Europe, the United States and North Africa studying battlefields from the middle ages to the 1960s.