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FOREWORD BY GENERAL SIR ARTHUR STEDMAN

When Colonel Royce asked me to write a foreword for his work on the invasion, I readily agreed. The wounds from those dreadful days may seem too fresh, the fear and shock still too bright in the mind’s eye, for careful study. But memory is perishable. The onslaught is best recorded early, just after the clangor has stilled, before time tempers our memories.

This is an account of the most momentous episode in our history since William the Conqueror landed at Pevensey. It is also an intimate portrait of the American general Wilson Clay, whose rank as a combat commander will never be gainsaid, but whose place in the larger history of mankind’s journey will remain unsettled for many years.

For those who want to understand those dangerous days, for those who wish to smell the powder of battle and endure the burden of command, I strongly recommend Colonel Royce’s narrative.

—ARTHUR STEDMAN, GCB, CBE, DSO, MC

Rathwell House

26 May 1948