This web feature was written by Alison Parr and produced by the NZHistory.net.nz team.
Links
- Aerial photographs of the beaches and other sites of battle are provided.
- The BBC's animation contains a time line of the Allied advance between D-Day and August 1945.
- The D-Day Museum in Portsmouth contains pictures and explanation of the contemporary Overlord Embroidery (83 m long) inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry in France.
- New Zealand and France Shared Memory Arrangement seeks to foster understanding of the two countries' shared heritage of 20th-century wars.
Books
- Alison Parr, The big show: New Zealanders, D-Day and the war in Europe, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 2006
