Book review - "Overlord" by Max Hastings (1984)

The first book by Hastings I didn't really love. Maybe his writing hadn't hit it straps at this stage or maybe I don't find the Normandy campaign that interesting - too thoroughly covered by other writers, too much America, too many mistakes by the Allies after they landed which led to the prolonging of the war (as Hastings once pointed out the mistake made by the Germans halting at Dunkirk was repeated many times by the Allies when they were on the offensive). Once the Allies successfully landed they knew they were going to win - but they also knew whoever was leading the charge had a good chance of dying so their took their own sweet time about it, when boldness actually would have shortened the war and saved more lives in the long wrong. Sometimes I did get sick of him talking about how great the German army was but maybe because it's an uncomfortable truth for me.