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"Both the novice and D-Day historian will want to read The Boys of Pointe du Hoc." JoAnna McDonald
Ronald Reagan, D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion
William Morrow
May 2005
289 pages ISBN: 0060565276 Hardcover
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"These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who
took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a
continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war." —
Ronald Reagan, June 6, 1984, Normandy, France Acclaimed historian and author of the "New York Times"
bestselling Tour of Duty Douglas Brinkley tells the
riveting account of the brave U.S. Army Rangers who stormed
the coast of Normandy on D-Day and the President, forty
years later, who paid them homage. The importance of Pointe du Hoc to Allied planners like
General Dwight Eisenhower cannot be overstated. The heavy
U.S. and British warships poised in the English Channel had
eighteen targets on their bombardment list for D-Day
morning. The 100-foot promontory known as Pointe du Hoc --
where six big German guns were ensconced -- was number one.
General Omar Bradley, in fact, called knocking out the Nazi
defenses at the Pointe the toughest of any task assigned on
June 6, 1944. Under the bulldoggish command of Colonel
James E. Rudder of Texas, who is profiled here, these elite
forces "Rudder's Rangers" -- took control of the fortified
cliff. The liberation of Europe was under way. Based upon recently released documents from the Ronald
Reagan Presidential Library, the Eisenhower Center, Texas A
& M University, and the U.S. Army Military History
Institute, The Boys of Pointe du Hoc is the first in-depth,
anecdotal remembrance of these fearless Army Rangers. With
brilliant deftness, Brinkley moves between two events four
decades apart to tell the dual story of the making of
Reagan's two uplifting 1984 speeches, considered by many to
be among the best orations the Great Communicator ever
gave, and the actual heroic event, which was indelibly
captured as well in the opening scenes of Steven
Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan". Just as compellingly,
Brinkley tells the story of how Lisa Zanatta Henn, the
daughter of a D-Day veteran, forged a special friendship
with President Reagan that changed public perceptions of
World War II veterans forever. Two White House
speechwriters -- Peggy Noonan and Tony Dolan -- emerge in
the narrative as the master scribes whose ethereal prose
helped Reagan become the spokesperson for the entire World
War II generation.
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