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The Climactic Battle of World War II
Illustrated
Simon & Schuster
May 2014
On Sale: May 6, 2014
768 pages
ISBN: 1476765863
EAN: 9781476765860
Kindle: B00GVJ16B6
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction History
Now illustrated with an extraordinary collection of over 125
photos, Stephen E. Ambrose’s D-Day is the definitive
history of World War II’s most pivotal battle, June 6, 1944,
the 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, the book 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 most honored account of one of our history’s most
important days.
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