Join us as writer Niki Sepsas explores the Normandy Invasion. It is hard to conceive the epic scope of this decisive battle that foreshadowed the end of Hitler’s dream of Nazi domination. Known as Operation Overlord, this was the largest air, land, and sea operation undertaken before or since June 6, 1944. The landing included over 5,000 ships, 11,000 airplanes, and over 150,000 service men.?After years of meticulous planning and endless training, for the Allied Forces, it all came down to this operation. When it was over, the Allied Forces had suffered nearly 10,000 casualties; more than 4,000 were dead. Yet somehow, due to planning and preparation, and due to the valor, fidelity, and sacrifice of the Allied Forces, Fortress Europe had been breached.

After college at West Point and the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Niki Sepsas served in the army before embarking on a thirty-year travel career that has taken him to more than 160 countries and each of the world’s seven continents. More than 900 of his travel adventures have been published in over fifty national, regional, and local magazines and newspapers. He is a contributing author to the Chicken Soup for the Soul series of books and has written more than a dozen coffee table books, several personal memoirs, and a novel.