EIGHTY YEARS SINCE D-DAY
Chris Danziger, tutor, Continuing Education Department, Oxford University
Monday 27–Wednesday 29 January 9.15 am COURSE FEES R330; Staff and students R165
D-Day was the operation which liberated Europe from Nazi German occupation. It was the greatest amphibian operation ever planned. 2024 marked its 80th anniversary. A handful of the original participants were still alive to celebrate. Among them were several South African divisions. It was one of the most minutely planned operations in history. So many things could have gone wrong. In the event, although it was far from plain sailing, and hugely costly in terms of human lives, almost nothing went wrong. It remains a feat of astonishing military, organisational and human achievement.
Lecture titles
- Fortress Europa and the Atlantic Wall
- To hell and back: 6 June 1944
- Operation Neptune to Operation Overlord: the Battle of Normandy
Recommended reading
Beevor, A. 2012. D-Day: The battle for Normandy. London: Penguin Books. Holland, J. 2019. Normandy 44: a new history. London: Transworld.
MacIntyre, B. 2012. Double Cross: the true story of the D-Day spies. London: Bloomsbury. Ryan, C. 1959. The Longest Day. New York: Simon and Schuster.
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