EAN: 9781838603441

THE LONGEST DAY - CORNELIUS RYAN KARTONIERT (TB)

6 June  1944. 156 000 troops from 12 different countries  11 000 aircraft  7 000 naval vessels
24 hours. D-Day - the beginning of the Allied invasion of Hitler's formidable 'Fortress Europe'
- was the largest amphibious invasion in history. There has never been a battle like it  before
or since. But beyond the statistics and over sixty years on  what is it about the events of
D-Day that remain so compelling? The courage of the men who fought and died on the beaches of
France? The sheer boldness of the invasion plan? Or the fact that this  Rommel's 'longest day'
heralded the beginning of the end of World War II? One of the defining battles of the war 
D-Day is scored into the imagination as the moment when the darkness of the Third Reich began
to be swept away. 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. In the
words of its author  The Longest Day is a story not of war  but of the courage of men.

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