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The author, Sir Max Hastings, talked about the planning of the invasion and how it was a remarkable achievement. He mentioned the planning and organisation of logistics as the greatest feats ever known. He highlighted the civilians in uniforms who were clever accountants and mathematicians, who worked day after day and month after month to solve huge problems.
Sir Max Hastings is author of Overlord, D-Day and the Battle for Normandy.
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The author, Sir Max Hastings, talked about the planning of the invasion and how it was a remarkable achievement. He mentioned the planning and organisation of logistics as the greatest feats ever known. He highlighted the civilians in uniforms who were clever accountants and mathematicians, who worked day after day and month after month to solve huge problems.
Sir Max Hastings is author of Overlord, D-Day and the Battle for Normandy.
It was one of the greatest feats of planning and organization and logistics ever known, even before you started on the fighting.
And all those staff officers who, they weren't soldiers, they were civilians in uniforms. They were clever accountants and mathematicians and anybody who could add and subtract. And they were sitting there day after day and month after month, solving all sorts of huge problems every day. And it was an extraordinary achievement.
