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Sand and Steel: A New History of D-Day by Peter Caddick-Adams finance and executives at Chelsea6 June 1944, 4 a. m. Hundreds of boats assemble off the coast of Normandy. By nightfall, thousands of the men they carry will be dead. Through their sacrifice, the Allies will gain a foothold in Europe that will ultimately lead to the downfall of the Third Reich. This was D Day, the most important day of the twentieth century. In Sand and Steel, one of Britain's leading military historians draws on a decade of archival research and thousands of