D-Day

BOOK D-Day: June 6, 1944 -- The Climactic Battle of WWII

Author: Stephen E. Ambrose

Publisher's Weekly says: "Ambrose's account of the D-Day fighting on the Normandy beaches and bluffs is unsurpassed for detail, emotion and suspense. Quoting liberally from the recollections of participants, he reveals how the massive cross-Channel effort stretched back two years and involved millions of people. He describes the choice of the site and date of the landings, the planning and special training, ship loading and embarkation, and finally the amphibious assault itself--that moment when ``the Western democracies made their fury manifest.''