The Second D-Day

x, 314 pp. Includes black-and-white photographs. "In the early morning hours of Tuesday, 15 August 1944, amid the velvety blackness and stillness of a warm Provencal night, the vanguard of an invasion army of nearly 300,000 combined American, French, Canadian, and British troops were preparing to land on the Mediterranean coast of France, somewhere between Toulon and Cannes. The first shot rang out shortly after midnight in the darkness around the sheer cliff at Cap Negre, near Le Lavandou. D-Day in Provence had begun, two months and nine days after the landings in Normandy on 6 June."