D Day, June 6, 1944

The Climactic Battle of World War II

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

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Paperback | 1 June 1995

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Stephen E. Ambrose’s D-Day is the definitive history of World War II’s most pivotal battle, a day that changed the course of history.

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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Thomas B. Buell Chicago Tribune 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. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt The New York Times 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. Raleigh Trevelyan The New York Times Book Review D-Day 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. John Lehman The Wall Street Journal Definitive...His evidence is overwhelming.

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Non-Fiction History General & World History Military History Second World War Regional & National History European History

Prologue
The Defenders
The Attackers
The Commanders
Where And When?
Utilizing Assets
Planning and Preparing
Training
Marshaling and Briefing
Loading
Decision to Go
Cracking the Atlantic Wall
The Airborne into Normandy
""Let's Get Those Bastards"
"The Airborne Night Attack
""The Greatest Show Ever Staged"
"The Air Bombardment
A Long, Endless Column of Ships
The Naval Crossing and Bombardment
""We'll Start the War from Right Here"
"The 4th Division at Utah Beach
""Nous Restons Ici"
"The Air
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