Atlas of the Normandy Campaign: Maps and Aerial Photographs of D-Day to The Falaise Pocket

About Michael Bechthold

Mike Bechthold PhD is the Managing Director of the Juno Beach Centre and Production Coordinator of the Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Before this he was the Communications Director & Managing Editor Canadian Military History Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies. He has led over 20 groups of students academics high school teachers military officers and the general public on tours of the Canadian battlefields in France Belgium the Netherlands and Germany. Mike is also an accomplished cartographer. His work has been published in hundreds of books journals and magazines as well as being used in museum exhibits and online galleries. Mike has written and contributed to many books and articles including - Flying to Victory: Raymond Collishaw and the Western Desert Campaign 1940-41 (U. of Oklahoma Press 2017) Canada and the Second World War with G. Hayes & M. Symes eds. (WLU Press 2012) Vimy Ridge: A Canadian Reassessment with Geoffrey Hayes & Andrew Iarocci eds. (WLU Press 2007) The Canadian Battlefields of Northern France: Dieppe and the Channel Ports with T. Copp (LCMSDS Press 2011) The Canadian Battlefields of Belgium the Netherlands and Germany with T. Copp (LCMSDS Press 2011) The Canadian Battlefields in Normandy: A Visitor's Guide with T. Copp 3rd ed. (LCMSDS 2008). The Canadian Battlefields of Northwest Europe 1944-1945 with T. Copp LCMSDS 2005. Culture and National Character on the Great War Battlefield: The Experience of the Australian British and Canadian Armies during the Battle of Arras 1917 War & Society 32 no.2 (August 2013). 'The Development of an Unbeatable Combination': US Close Air Support in Normandy contained in Jeremy Black ed. The Second World War Volume II The German War 1943-1945 (Hampshire UK: Ashgate Publishing Limited May 2007). 'One of the greatest moments in my life': Lessons Learned on the Canadian Battle of Normandy Foundation Study Tour Defence Studies (UK) March 2005 pp.27-36. A Question of Success: American Tactical Air Doctrine and Practice in North Africa 1942-1943 Journal of Military History July 2004 pp.821-851.