In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious
way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your
skin, without even opening them.
- Mark Twain.
Friday, June 7, 2024
Thursday, June 6, 2024
Recommended reading - D-Day: June 6, 1944. The Battle for the Normandy Beaches, by Stephen E. Ambrose.
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.
#D-Day, #veterans, #remembrance, #tribute, #military, #respect, #valor, #laurels, #America, #freedom, #heroes, #honor, #6June1944,
On this day in music history - The album Bad Animals, by Heart (1987)
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Bad Animals
by Heart
was released on June 6,
1987.
On this day in movie history - Back to the Drive-in (2022)
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Back to the Drive-in
documentary directed and written by
April Wright
was released in the United States on June 6, 2022.
On this day in movie history - Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-in Movie (2013)
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Going
Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-in Movie
documentary
directed and written by April Wright,
was released
in the United States on June 6, 2013.
Music by Dave
Glover, Kate Houle and Rob Houle.
Charles
Bruss, Riley Cooke, Roger Corman, Dennis Cozzalio, Bob Deutsch, Matt Dillon,
Barry Floyd, Barb Frankhouser, Bill Frankhouser, Paul Geissinger, Patricia King
Hanson, Richard M. Hollingshead III, David Hudzik, Jennifer Sherer Janisch, Sam
Kirkland, Jim Kopp, Megan Kopp, Mark Lovato, Robbie Mack, Wes Neal, Teri
Oldknow, Karen Sternheimer, Ed Szurek, Tony Troidl, D. Edward Vogel.
Born on this day – Gary Graham:
Actor
Writer
Director
Producer
June 6, 1950 – January
22, 2024
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