D-Day: June 6,
1944. The Battle for the Normandy Beaches
by Stephen E.
Ambrose.
ISBN-13: 978-1471158261
D-Day is the epic
story of men at the most demanding moment of their lives, when the horrors,
complexities, and triumphs of life are laid bare. Distinguished historian
Stephen E. Ambrose portrays the faces of courage and heroism, fear and
determination — what Eisenhower called “the fury of an aroused democracy” —
that shaped the victory of the citizen soldiers whom Hitler had disparaged.
Drawing on more
than 1,400 interviews with American, British, Canadian, French, and German
veterans, Ambrose reveals how the original plans for the invasion had to be
abandoned, and how enlisted men and junior officers acted on their own
initiative when they realized that nothing was as they were told it would be.
The action begins
at midnight, June 5/6, when the first British and American airborne troops
jumped into France. It ends at midnight June 6/7. Focusing on those pivotal
twenty-four hours, it moves from the level of Supreme Commander to that of a
French child, from General Omar Bradley to an American paratrooper, from Field
Marshal Montgomery to a German sergeant. Ambrose’s D-Day is the finest account
of one of our history’s most important days.
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