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D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.28 · Rating details · 24,202 ratings · 716 reviews

It is the young men born into the false prosperity of the 1920s and brought up in the bitter realities of the Depression of the 1930s that this book is about. The literature they read as youngsters was anti-war and cynical, portraying patriots as suckers, slackers and heroes. None of them wanted to be part of another war. They wanted to be throwing baseballs, not handgrena ...more

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Sep 11, 2009 Tony rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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May 8, 1994

Dear Prof. Ambrose:

I have read most of your books and enjoyed them immensely. I was therefore eagerly awaiting the publication of your new book about D-Day. It finally arrived at our bookstore and I immediately began, greedily, to devour it.

As it turns out, last Tuesday, I journeyed to Altoona, one-hundred miles east of here, to take my father to a hospital for some exploratory surgery. My father was an army medic, helping to chase Rommel through North Africa. He made it to Sicily whe May 8, 1994

Dear Prof. Ambrose:

I have read most of your books and enjoyed them immensely. I was therefore eagerly awaiting the publication of your new book about D-Day. It finally arrived at our bookstore and I immediately began, greedily, to devour it.

As it turns out, last Tuesday, I journeyed to Altoona, one-hundred miles east of here, to take my father to a hospital for some exploratory surgery. My father was an army medic, helping to chase Rommel through North Africa. He made it to Sicily where he suffered shrapnel wounds. Even now, when I read your histories of brave young men, I hear my father's stories of horror, joy, friendship and courage.

I was obviously very concerned about the surgery my father faced and the possible results of the concurrent tests. I knew I would have a long, lonely wait in the hospital waiting room. I brought your book. It helped. For long stretches of time the worry surrounding me abated as I turned the pages of that day on the beaches of Normandy.

Hours passed and the room filled with patients and their families. An old man came in, alone, and sat next to me. He smelled seasoned. I did not look up from my (your) book.

Finally the old man shouted at me, "What's that book about?"

I showed him the cover and said, "D-Day."

"I was there," he said.

I looked from his ice-blue eyes, down his unshaven face, to his windbreaker. There, over his heart, was a Screaming Eagle.

It happens that this man, George Adams, was a paratrooper in C Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne. I showed him your book and he began slowly looking through the pictures. After awhile I began to wonder if he would ever give me the book back without a fight. If so, I didn't like my chances.

I asked him if he was still close to the men he jumped with that day and his jaw set in a way that I've never seen before and cannot adequately describe. He says he goes to the reunions annually. He's thinking about going back this June to jump on the anniversary.

I gave him the address for The Eisenhower Center and urged him to write to you. I hope he does. Anyhow, he said he was going to buy your book.

I wanted to buy him a hundred beers and ask him a thousand questions. I wish my own reasons for being in that waiting room were not hanging like a cloud. But my concerns kept me there and George Adams was called out next.

We shook hands and I thanked him. He thanked me. I wanted him to know that there are many of my generation who appreciate what he did. I think we both felt our coincidental meeting was more special than odd.

He left and I sat there holding your book, full of heroes like George Adams and the man I was waiting for.

My Dad was all right: just some hemorrhoids. I pried him loose from the nurses and drove him home.

I wanted to share this story with you and to thank you for the gift you share with readers like me.

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Jun 21, 2017 Tim rated it did not like it

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As a brit this book really annoyed me. It’s not about the Normandy landings; it’s about the American landing on Omaha Beach. At every opportunity Ambrose trivialises and criticises the British, Canadian and other allied forces while giving us a chest thumping partisan view of the unequalled bravery of the Americans. The bias is embarrassing and a colossal show of disrespect to the soldiers of every other nation in the allied forces.

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May 13, 2010 Rhonda rated it it was amazing

My father (Warner Hamlett -D-Day vet and still doing well) was interviewed and quoted in this book. He is 93 years old and relives WWII every night in his dreams. He still goes out to his homemade bomb cellar during thunderstorms and screams in his sleep.

Stephen Ambrose is an excellent author. He double checks his details and sources, using first-hand accounts of events. My father was in the 29 infantry out of South Boston, VA when they stormed Normandy Beach. The book tells the story of D-Day s ...more

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Jan 05, 2014 Checkman rated it liked it · review of another edition

Recommends it for: those with a general interest in WWII

Shelves: history, non-fiction, military-history

Stephen Ambrose enjoyed tremendous popularity in the 1990's with his WWII books about the fighting in Northwestern Europe. The books were massive bestsellers and made him a household name. Of course a historian enjoying such popularity means that other historians and history buffs will be examing his/her's work with a fine tooth comb. Late in his life ,and continuing since his death, reports surfaced documenting/alleging longtime patterns of plagiarism and inaccuracies in many of his published w Stephen Ambrose enjoyed tremendous popularity in the 1990's with his WWII books about the fighting in Northwestern Europe. The books were massive bestsellers and made him a household name. Of course a historian enjoying such popularity means that other historians and history buffs will be examing his/her's work with a fine tooth comb. Late in his life ,and continuing since his death, reports surfaced documenting/alleging longtime patterns of plagiarism and inaccuracies in many of his published writings and other work. Additionally Ambrose has come under not unjustified criticism for his unabashed flag-waving and concentration on the men who made up the "elite" units rather than the poor kid who was drafted and thrown into the meat grinder with just a few weeks of training. Though ground combat is ground combat there is a difference between a highly trained paratrooper who had to be motivated just to get through the training and the eighteen year old who was assigned to the infantry with no say in the matter. That will shape perceptions and there are many who feel that Ambrose ignored the grunt because the grunt wasn't going to give a more rah rah account.

Well as I wrote at the beginning this is a not unjustified critique of Ambrose. However I feel that it should be pointed out that "D-Day:June 6, 1944" is a little different. There is flagwaving and you can hear the stirring music in the background (albeit faintly), but in all fairness to Ambrose many of the vets who were interviewed were average soldiers - not paratroopers and Rangers and commandos. As a result I think "D-Day" presents a more balanced account of the fighting and the soldiers. No there is not the anger or cycnicsm that one will find with other writers such as Paul Fussell, but there is also not so much chest thumping as was in "Band of Brothers". This isn't a bad book. It didn't present anything new to me. This day has been covered by hundreds of writers in the past seventy years, but it's still a readable account. He does especially fine work covering Omaha Beach.

If you're determined to hate Ambrose then you won't like this book . But if you're not very familiar with the war ,or don't have any strong academic opinions, then "D-Day: June 6, 1944" will prove to be informative and an involving read. It's popular history and sometimes that's enough. ...more

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Mar 11, 2012 Simon rated it it was ok

Reading this you'd be forgiven for thinking that the US was alone at Normandy. One-eyed puffery and tabloid in its execution, as is Ambrose's way.

There are vastly better books on D-Day (Beevor and Hastings for a start). ...more

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Sep 15, 2019 Carol Storm rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Compelling, suspenseful, inspiring and heartbreaking. The pace of the narrative never flags. Absolutely the finest popular history ever written about the D Day Invasion. Ambrose has the right mix, combining an endless series of fascinating personal accounts from English, German, and American troops, plus balancing out the strategic overview with detailed analysis.

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Mar 26, 2016 Jim rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: history, books-read-2016

This book is based on the oral histories of 1,400 men who were involved in D-Day. The majority of the book deals with one 24 hour period. Midnight, June 5/6 until midnight June 6/7. I learned about D-Day growing up. Mostly this was facts and figures. I have seen several movies about D-Day. Some were good. With the exception of a few names such as Roosevelt, Churchill, Eisenhower, and Montgomery I didn't know the people involved in one of the most historic events of the 20th century. In this book ...more

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Oct 17, 2011 Beanbrenner rated it liked it

Extraordinarily interesting anecdotes? Check. Chest-thumping patriotism? Check. Unbiased, carefully vetted history? Ehhhhhh.

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Aug 27, 2018 Peter Schmeltzer rated it it was amazing

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The greatest generation.

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Sep 15, 2019 Emily rated it really liked it · review of another edition

"The beach was just a complete shambles. It was like an inferno. There were bodies everywhere and some wounded being attended to. As I went by a tank I heard people screaming for morphine. The tank was on fire and they were burning to death. There wasn't a thing that I could do about that... Around midnight... I remember thinking, 'Man what a day this has been. If every day is going to be as bad as this I'll never survive the war.'" - Captain James Roberts (Easy Red Sector, Omaha Beach)

This book "The beach was just a complete shambles. It was like an inferno. There were bodies everywhere and some wounded being attended to. As I went by a tank I heard people screaming for morphine. The tank was on fire and they were burning to death. There wasn't a thing that I could do about that... Around midnight... I remember thinking, 'Man what a day this has been. If every day is going to be as bad as this I'll never survive the war.'" - Captain James Roberts (Easy Red Sector, Omaha Beach)

This book took me a very long time to finish (in no small part because I'm a slow reader - a reality exacerbated in this case by how frequently I found myself pausing and staring existentially into the void).

The material isn't all dark. In a brief moment of respite I found myself laughing out loud at a Royal Marine Commando with enough presence of mind for a quip upon landing at Gold: "Perhaps we're intruding. This seems to be a private beach."

But the accounts (sometimes merely sentence-long observations) of the individual soldier alone on his "own little battlefield," suffering, became recurring reflective exercises for me. Unable to stop myself from imagining the exact instant a life ceased to be - the before millisecond and then the after - I returned to a singular train of thought: What would it be like to die in that way with no witnesses available to emotionally reckon with the moment? What would it be like to die with no one to REALLY notice?

This lens shaped my entire reading of the book, and it continues to weigh on me in the sense of an urgent need to seek, to learn, to share veterans' stories. I wish to be able to take the time that for their brothers on the battlefield was an impossible luxury: the time to mourn their passing and feel deeply its implications. A brief trip to Normandy earlier this year offered a tiny peek into what that responsibility entails. I long to go back. In the interim, works like Ambrose's and the introspection they provoke can remind us of our responsibility, even when on their own they feel entirely insufficient.

Unfortunately Ambrose truly glosses - I'm talking paragraphs in a 600-page historical record - over the racist and sexist oppression by a people fighting against oppression. Minorities are almost entirely excluded from the narrative. Rather than dwell on this oversight, I choose to focus on each and every story included in the book, all of which deserve to be told. The exclusions simply amplify our responsibilities to each other as fellow Americans to learn as many more stories as we can. "The trouble is you think you have time." ...more

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Mar 10, 2010 Don Stanton rated it it was amazing

Probably one of the top three of all of his books concerning the war in Europe. It is a great place to start reading his series of books about WWII. It would be great to read this and Pegasus Bridge at the same time.
If you have an ability visualize, you will be moved.
I was in France in September of 2008. I'm not a tour guy, so we just go were and when we want to go. Chelly, my wife, and I went to the cemetery in Normandy. I was nearly overwhelmed at the sight. When We came to the long stairway ...more

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Feb 06, 2008 Megan rated it it was amazing

Wonderful. I highly recommend Ambrose for historical reading. He makes things interesting and detailed and you feel like you really get to know somewhat what it was like being there. I will definitely be reading his other books. It's embarrassing that it took me almost 7 months to read this one though!
This book was a testimony to me that Heavenly Father was with those soldiers that day. It reminded me of Captain Moroni and the title of liberty-when you are fighting for your liberty and your wiv ...more

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Apr 07, 2011 Abigail added it

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I am currently listening to this audio book while at the same time reading the paperback of Anthony Beevor's D-Day book. I don't usually do that, listen to an audio book and read a paper copy book on the same topic. But in this case I am enjoying doing it, as I am really getting a full scope picture of this fascinating time in American history. ...more

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May 05, 2012 Kathlyn rated it did not like it

This book was terrible. It was biased, factually inaccurate and reflected the author's sycophantic relationship with Eisenhower rather than any objective understanding of the events of June 6 1944. ...more

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Apr 13, 2019 Jason Long rated it liked it

Too much American "Hoo-ah" and not enough credit given to the British and Canadian forces (only the last 10% of the book is allocated to them). Ambrose even repeatedly sees the need to reiterate that the British could have done more had they not continuously stopped for tea. ...more

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Sep 21, 2018 Mac rated it liked it · review of another edition

Ambrose sacrifices research for the sake of a flowing narrative.

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Nov 11, 2019 Holly rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: non-fiction

A great reminder of why we Americans should proudly stand for our flag!

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Jan 22, 2020 Jesse Washburn rated it really liked it

Good pacing and organization. Great first person anecdotes. The dark humor quotes by soldiers injected some great comedy. I'm no historian, but I felt some obvious US bias when negative actions of the Americans were overshadowed by worse examples of the Germans immediately after. Interesting read and look at a different time. ...more

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Jun 27, 2009 nanto marked it as to-read

Shelves: history-and-sociology, nant-s-book, international-relations, militer

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Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force!
You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have
striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The
hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.
In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on
other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war
machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over th ...more

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Sep 27, 2018 Jackson Shampanier-Bowen rated it really liked it

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. My name is Jackson Shampanier-Bowen and today we will be sitting down with Erwin Rommel for an interview. Erwin Rommel is a historical figure who is featured in the book D-Day June 6, 1944 The Climactic Battle of World War II by Stephen E. Ambrose. Erwin Rommel was a German Field Marshal during World War 2, known as the Desert Fox, who, after fighting in the North African deserts, was sent to defend the AtlantikWall against the incoming D-Day invasions. All his genius plans and ideas to fend off ...more

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Sep 26, 2018 Timons Esaias rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This is a classic retelling of the events of D-Day, the invasion of Normandy in WWII. It sets the stage, and then stays focused, for the most part, on the events of the first 24 hours. It's a page-turner, it is fascinating, and I would have it on my shelf in preference to The Longest Day, even though that work is justly famous.

Things that I especially admire about Ambrose's presentation:
-- He mentions, frequently, men who broke down. Too many military histories ignore the fact that people comple This is a classic retelling of the events of D-Day, the invasion of Normandy in WWII. It sets the stage, and then stays focused, for the most part, on the events of the first 24 hours. It's a page-turner, it is fascinating, and I would have it on my shelf in preference to The Longest Day, even though that work is justly famous.

Things that I especially admire about Ambrose's presentation:
-- He mentions, frequently, men who broke down. Too many military histories ignore the fact that people completely shatter in battle. They dig foxholes in the water, they hide under hedges, they curl up in a ball, they become incoherent, they try to swim back to England. Ambrose doesn't go on and on, but he counts the men who didn't jump out of the plane, mentions officers who wouldn't go ashore, and so forth.
-- He is clear that all the training in the world, all the dedication, all the leadership qualities, and so forth will avail you nothing if a shell goes through you. He gives us bios of men who did their best, and lasted ten seconds in combat. That's part of battle, too.
-- He does not love Field Marshal Montgomery, which is only proper in a historian. Montgomery did not pass along key information to his troops (like the presence of a Panzer division at Caen), because he didn't want to demoralize them. He'd pull the same crap at Market-Garden. He had a number of virtues, but if there is a Hell, he's down there.
-- He is aware of the civilians, both back home and the poor French civilians who were never evacuated from the Atlantic Wall. We get, for instance, the story of the French young woman who had left her swimsuit in a hut on one of the British beaches, and she went down to fetch it (wearing her Red Cross armband) because she didn't want anybody to steal it. She ended up spending two days tending to the wounded and the dead.
-- He is good at enumerating the differences between the five beaches, and between the US forces and the UK/Commonwealth forces. Each of the landings (and the two airborne landings) was different, and he's good at letting you know why.

My favorite line is from a British Royal Marine, approaching the shore with heavy machine-gun fire playing around: "Perhaps we're intruding. This seems to be a private beach."

This is a good book, but I have some issues and complaints.
-- The maps are inadequate. There are no maps of the British beaches, which is half the invasion. The "original plan" map does show the British area, but because it's oriented N-S, rather than along the line of the beaches, all the rear area and the eastern flank of the British sector is cut off. Also, it would be possible to give a down-to-the-pillbox map of the key sectors in which we get detailed discussions in the text, but instead we can't connect the stories to the terrain. [My standard beef with military histories is this: Do Not Mention A Town or Village, Unless You Give Us A Map That Shows Where It Is.]
-- The British and Canadian beaches are given relatively short shrift, which goes along with the lack of detailed maps of those sectors.
-- Yeah, it shoulda been about a hundred pages longer. Ambrose had written about the Pegasus Bridge operation, he knew a good deal about the left half of the operation, but he spent 28% of the entire text on Omaha Beach. Omaha was Sheol on shingle, but a book about D-Day should be better balanced than that.
-- On two occasions he chastises Hitler for using the V-1 against London, instead of against the Normandy beaches. That's just baloney. A few extra random 1-ton bombs dropped across 50 miles of beachhead would not have made a significant difference. They just weren't that useful of a weapon. ...more

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May 10, 2018 RyanP rated it it was amazing

About three months ago I came across The Rising Tide, by Jeff Shaara, in a box in my room. I have always been interested in the World Wars era, so I decided to give that book a try. I absolutely loved it and it inspired me to seek out new WWII novels. While searching for my next read, I came across D-Day and thought it would be a good book.

D-Day depicts the story of its namesake, both the day and preparations. On June 6, 1944, the United States and Great Britain led the Allied forces in a full-s About three months ago I came across The Rising Tide, by Jeff Shaara, in a box in my room. I have always been interested in the World Wars era, so I decided to give that book a try. I absolutely loved it and it inspired me to seek out new WWII novels. While searching for my next read, I came across D-Day and thought it would be a good book.

D-Day depicts the story of its namesake, both the day and preparations. On June 6, 1944, the United States and Great Britain led the Allied forces in a full-scale invasion of the Normandy coast in Northern France. Prior to the assault, the Soviet Union was suffering heavy losses while keeping Germany in check in Eastern Europe. Stalin demanded that the Allies open up a new front to relieve some of the pressure on Soviet Forces. The campaigns in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy were not enough, so the only option for the Allies was to liberate France, which had been taken under Nazi control in 1940. And so the largest invasion in history was formed. Over 150,000 Allied soldiers landed on the beaches codenamed Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword. They crossed the channel in an armada of warships, landing craft, and other support ships. It was a feat of ingenuity. Deception, surprise, decoys, new technologies, and just sheer numbers and firepower enabled the Allies to establish a beachhead, officially opening a strong second front to the European Theater of World War II.

I found this book to be just phenomenal. I am utterly amazed at the scrutinizing detail put into Ambrose’s narrative. The back cover states that about 1,400 interviews were compiled while writing the book. For just about every stage of the invasion, every event, there is an eye-witness account of what happened. With so many primary sources, the book creates a completely accurate account of D-Day, including the details put into planning the invasion.

The only negative thing I have to say is that there is an uneven distribution of fame in the book. By this I mean that the United States receives far more credit than the other Allies (with the other primary ones being the UK and Canada; the other Allies receive virtually no credit). I suppose that this is understandable, seeing as how Ambrose was born in the US and no doubt has a bias, as all people do. Regardless, Stephen Ambrose has composed an incredibly extensive account of what was one of the most important events in the last 100 years.
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Jan 18, 2018 Michael Walker rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: history

Stephen Ambrose's book is told from an American viewpoint; only a cursory run-through of other Allied participants in the Normandy invasion on D-Day is included at the end of the book, covering 65 pages (out of 583 total pages). Otherwise, a well-told account, giving first-hand stories (both oral and written) from those who participated; over 1,400 interviews! Also, the book covers a brief description of the planning phase during the run-up to June 6th, but focuses primarily on the events of tha ...more

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May 06, 2019 Elsabet rated it it was amazing

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While I read this, I wanted so badly to help those men somehow. To do something. But most of them are dead. All I could do was thank God that they were willing to sacrifice their all to protect the liberty of generations yet to come.

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Jun 22, 2019 Gordon Leidner rated it it was amazing

Superbly researched and written book that brings the stories of hundreds of heroes in to your living room. Difficult to put this book down, and even more difficult to read without weeping. This was truly as Tom Brokaw says, the greatest American generation.

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Jan 27, 2020 Michael Wheatley rated it really liked it

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Dec 30, 2020 Matt Midlock marked it as gave-up · review of another edition

As much as I am interested in history I have an impossible time getting through history books.....

I am looking for an overall sweeping view of what happened and why it happened, but it seems like many books get mired in the details of divisions, troop numbers and vehicle acronyms. It's all just gobbledygook after a while and I'm not left with a sense of what actually happened.

I'm not faulting the author as those things are important to most history buffs - just not for me. Maybe I just need to ...more

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Jun 22, 2017 Dwight rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

An excellent piece of research and writing. Another reminder of what the "greatest generation" did for our nation and our world. We as Americans need to utilize the insights provided to us by our ancestors to pull together and work with one another to improve the plight of all Americans. What has happened to our nation? The greed, the self-centeredness? Where is our sense of community? I am so proud of the people of this era who came together for the common good. I hope and pray that our generat ...more

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Jan 15, 2019 David Schroeder rated it really liked it

A solid yet brief history on D-Day by the master World War 2 historian, Stephen Ambrose. For anyone willing to understand the context and complexity to achieve such success from the mind of Eisenhower and Bradley to the preparation and response from Rommel, it is intriguing. Ambrose does a fine job following multiple stories of common soldiers, NCOs, and officers so the reader feels an ounce of what they experienced. I highly recommend.

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Nov 07, 2020 Danielle rated it liked it

I have always had a soft spot for World War II vets. I can’t see them in a Fourth of July parade without crying. This is a great book about an important moment in history. I would have given the it a higher rating except that it is bogged down in a little too much military jargon for my taste and it meanders between anecdotes/perspectives in a way that can get a little tedious.

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