Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cadman: vivid memories of the noise, flames and smoke of battle Roy Cadman, who has died aged 102, was wounded and taken prisoner ...

Funeral of Scottish D-Day veteran and former POW to take place - Jim Glennie was just 18 when he landed on Sword Beach as ...

"Sword Beach: D-Day Baptism of Fire" by Max Hastings presents the Normandy landings through the lived experiences of British soldiers who stormed Sword Beach, emphasizing the reality of combat at the ...

The British Army’s triumphs—and many failings—on D-Day are reexamined in this elegant account. Historian Hastings (Operation Biting) recaps the British landing at Sword Beach, several miles east of ...