The Longest Day: The D-Day Story, June 6th, 1944

The Longest Day: The D-Day Story, June 6th, 1944
ISBN-10
1848853874
ISBN-13
9781848853874
Series
The Longest Day
Category
Normandy (France)
Pages
350
Language
English
Published
2010-09-01
Publisher
I. B. Tauris
Author
Cornelius Ryan

Description

EUROPEAN HISTORY: SECOND WORLD WAR. Cornelius Ryan (1920-1974) was a celebrated Irish-American journalist and author, most famous for his popular military history books on World War II. This is the story of D-Day, told through the voices of over 1,000 survivors -from high-ranking Allied and German officers, to the paratroopers who landed in Normandy before dawn, the infantry who struggled ashore and the German troops who defended the coast. Cornelius Ryan captures the horror and the glory of D-Day, relating in emotive and compelling detail the years of inspired tactical planning that led up to the invasion, its epic implementation and every stroke of luck and individual act of heroism that would later define the battle.

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