It has been eighty years since the Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy. During D-Day on June 6, 1944, 156,000 troops arrived in France to fight for the liberation of Europe. In this miniseries, the story of history's largest naval invasion is told through rare and never-before-aired audio recordings. The series is based on a wealth of interviews with British, American and German soldiers and French witnesses. They reveal stories of courage and fear, strategy and chaos, and show the invasion as it happened eighty years ago.