First Airborne Task Force is a rare reference book. It was published in 1998 and has not been reprinted. With 500 pages, this is a huge and heavy book. That’s more than Detrez 2 volumes on Normandy combined. This book covers the invasion of Southern France and subsequent battles fought in the Provence and the Maritime Alps. The last chapter is about the First Special Service Force. As with the other books, it contains many photos of original and unique uniforms and equipment, as well as period photographs. I would recommend this book if you can get one cheap (150 EUR would be cheap if you reckon it can fetch up to 350 USD via Amazon, but that’s really outrageous). Just last week, one sold on eBay for 190 EUR, and one just sold on paratrooper.fr for about 225 EUR.
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This book from Heimdal publishing is dedicated specifically to the fighting in and around Carentan, Normandy 6-15 June 1944. It is in French, but to be honest I have only looked at the pictures and their captions, and still it’s worthwhile. There are many period photos and great photos from the displays at the Dead Man’s Corner museum, which so far I have only found in this book. See pictures below.

I wasn’t sure this series would ever continue beyond part 2, but part 3 just came out and it is beautiful. This volume is still called ‘Airborne’ but actually covers the involvement of the 29th Infantry Division in D-Day. I am told that it’s sequel, part 4 is due out in February 2012. It is refreshing to see that some comic book authors like Jarbinet still invest a lot in research. Many others will also toil a year on creating one album, but often riddled with uniforms and weapons errors. See related post on part 1 and 2.