With a special recording by Field-Marshal
Viscount Montgomery of Alamein,
G.C.B.. D.S.O.
Programme written by Chester Wilmot and Robert Barr
Produced by Laurence Gilliam
This programme gives an account ot the events that led from the evacuation of Dunkirk to the victorious storming of the Normandy beaches on Jane 6, 1944. From facts obtained from both Allied and German official documents of the time. it attempts to tell both sides of the story and to explain the problems, organisation. and planning that lay behind the British, and later Allied. determination to return to the Continent in sufficient strength to defeat the Germans