D-Day: James Holland answers your questions

Today marks the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings, the largest seaborne invasion in history. Earlier this week one of Britain's leading military historians, James Holland, took to Twitter to answer your questions about the Normandy landings. Here, we have pulled together some of the highlights of the Q&A session

Historian James Holland

June 6, 2014 at 5:00 am

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