Historian James Holland and ex-US Army Ranger, Dr Mike Simpson tour the wider Normandy battlefield in a fresh and original series that finally does justice to the scale and complexity of an epic, brutal campaign. In this episode our hosts examine the preparations for the invasion across southern England before crossing the Channel to Normandy, challenging many D-Day myths.

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