Joseph Balkoski is a historian specializing in the history of D-Day and the Normandy campaign. He is the author of the widely acclaimed book Beyond the Beachhead: The 29th Infantry Division in Normandy. He resided in Normandy during the summer of 2001 to study the D-Day beaches and Normandy battlefields, and he has conducted several "battlefield staff rides" there for current U.S. Army soldiers as part of their military training.
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"[Balkoski] provides a convincing, thoughtfully crafted narrative buttressed by facts and statistics that unequivocally recasts how one views both Utah Beach and the associated airborne operations."--Col. James R. Oman, Chairman, Department of Command, Leadership, and Management, U.S. Army War Colle"Parameters, Summer 2006" (06/01/2006) "Joe Balkoski has just written the finest book about Utah Beach."--Bill Stone"Stone & Stone Second World War Books" (09/25/2005)