Though they're approaching their 70th anniversary, the D-Day landings have lost none of their impactl. 'The Normandy Battlefields' takes the reader 'on-site' to the sacred battleground from its scarred medieval villages to the remains of more modern means of destruction.[...]
Numerous photographs, many of them panoramas reproduced at nearly two feet across, chart the objects visible from Earth. The book starts with an examination of the history of astronomy from earliest times. Next follows a brief history of the Hubble Space Telescope and explains its sensor package. Th[...]