D-Day - by Stephen E Ambrose (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This monumental narrative provides a compelling portrait of the strategic dimesnions of the invasion that changed the course of the World War II, skillfully melding eyewitness accounts of American, British, Canadian, French, and German veterans, materials from government and private archives, and never-before-utilized sources from the homefront. Photos & maps.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Stephen E. Ambrose's <i>D-Day </i>is the definitive history of World War II's most pivotal battle, a day that changed the course of history.</b> <p/><i>D-Day</i> 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. <p/>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. <p/> 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 <i>D-Day </i>is the finest account of one of our history's most important days.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Christopher Lehmann-Haupt <i>The New York Times</i> Reading this history, you can understand why for so many of its participants, despite all the death surrounding them, life revealed itself in that moment at that place.<br><br>John Lehman <i>The Wall Street Journal</i> Definitive...His evidence is overwhelming.<br><br>Raleigh Trevelyan <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <i>D-Day</i> is mostly about people, but goes even further in evoking the horror, the endurance, the daring and, indeed, the human failings at Omaha Beach...Outstanding.<br><br>Thomas B. Buell <i>Chicago Tribune</i> Historians and public alike should be profoundly grateful to Ambrose...for assembling this comprehensive and permanent record that will be forever a resource for remembering Normandy.<br>
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