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Hitler knew an invasion was imminent,; he didn't know when or where, and numerous false trails were laid to throw the German High Command off the Normandy scent. Even after the mass landings on D-Day (6 June 1944) - the largest invasion fleet in military history - Hitler expected an attack elsewhere in his 'Atlantic Wall'. The Allies soon had a million troops on the ground from that moment Germany's defeat was assured.

Paris was liberated before August was out, and the Allies advanced into Belgium and Holland. With the Red Army also on the march in the east, making inroads into Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, the net was closing in. There was a final salvo in Belgium's Ardennes Forest, the fames Battle of the Bulge, but once that was arrested it was merely a question of which army would take Berlin. Long before that happened in April 1945, Allie leaders had turned their thoughts to dealing with the vanquished state. Churchill was also casting a wary eye at Stalin as the victors began playing a political as well as a military game.

Superbly illustrated with photographs from the Daily Mail archives, 'World War Two: D-Day to Berlin' captures the significant turning point of the war in Europe.