The Longest Day: The Classic Epic of D-Day
Cornelius Ryan
Language: English
Pages: 352
ISBN: 0671890913
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The classic account of the Allied invasion of Normandy.
The Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan's unsurpassed account of D-Day, a book that endures as a masterpiece of military history. In this compelling tale of courage and heroism, glory and tragedy, Ryan painstakingly recreates the fateful hours that preceded and followed the massive invasion of Normandy to retell the story of an epic battle that would turn the tide against world fascism and free Europe from the grip of Nazi Germany.
This book, first published in 1959, is a must for anyone who loves history, as well as for anyone who wants to better understand how free nations prevailed at a time when darkness enshrouded the earth.
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Supervisory staff, Shenandoah County Public Schools, Woodstock, Va. Kraft, Paul C., Pvt. [1st Div.] Post office clerk and farmer, Canton, Miss. Kratzel, Siegfried F., S/Sgt. [4th Div.] Post office worker, Palmertown, Pa. Krause, Edward, Lt. Col. [82nd Airborne] Col. (retired) Krausnick, Clarence E., Sgt. [299th Engrs.] Carpenter, Syracuse, N.Y. Krzyzanowski, Henry S., S/Sgt. [1st Div.] Sgt. 1/c, U.S. Army Kucipak, Harry S., Pfc. [29th Div.] Electrician, Tupper Lake, N.Y. Kuhre, Leland B.,
SFC, U.S. Army Mills, William L., Jr., Lt. [4th Div.] Attorney, Hartsell & Hartsell, Concord, N.C. Milne, Walter J., S/Sgt. [386th Bomb Group] T/Sgt., U.S.A.F. Mockrud, Paul R., Cpl. [4th Div.] Veterans service officer, Westby, Wisc. Moglia, John J., S/Sgt. [1st Div.] Capt., U.S. Army Montgomery, Lester I., Pfc. [1st Div.] Gas-station operator, Pittsburg, Kans. Moody, Lloyd B., Ens. [5th Div. Amphibious Force) Hardware store operator, Lake View, Iowa Moore, Elzie K., Lt. Col. [First Eng.
for families and relatives to get together. Togged out in their best clothes, the Dubois and Davot children had made their first Communion in the little Vierville church before their proud parents and relatives. Some of these relatives, each armed with a special pass from the German authorities which had taken months to get, had come all the way from Paris. The trip had been exasperating and dangerous—exasperating because the overcrowded trains no longer ran on time, dangerous because all
so that it could be forwarded to Hitler’s headquarters, OKW, later in the day. The estimate was another typical wrong guess. It read: The systematic and distinct increase of air attacks indicates that the enemy has reached a high degree of readiness. The probable invasion front still remains the sector from the Scheldt [in Holland] to Normandy … and it is not impossible that the north front of Brittany might be included … [but] it is still not clear where the enemy will invade within this total
military history. It is the story of people: the men of the Allied forces, the enemy they fought and the civilians who were caught up in the bloody confusion of D Day—the day the battle began that ended Hitler’s insane gamble to dominate the world. PART ONE THE WAIT 1 THE VILLAGE WAS silent in the damp June morning. Its name was La Roche-Guyon and it had sat undisturbed for nearly twelve centuries in a great lazy loop of the Seine roughly midway between Paris and Normandy. For
