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The Longest Day: The Classic Epic of D-Day

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.

A true classic of World War II history, The Longest Day tells the story of the massive Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. Journalist Cornelius Ryan began working on the book in the mid-1950s, while the memories of the D-day participants were still fresh, and he spent three years interviewing D-day survivors in the United States and Europe. When his book was first published in 1959, it was tremendously successful, establishing many of the legends of D-day that endure in the public's mind. Ryan was enormously skillful at weaving small personal stories into the overall narrative, and he would later use the same technique to depict the airborne invasion of Holland in A Bridge Too Far. Not only is The Longest Day a pleasure to read, but subsequent historians, dutifully noting its accuracy, have relied heavily on Ryan's research for their own accounts. In short, the book is a "must read" for anyone interested in the D-day invasion. --Robert McNamara

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I have a near unquenchible thirst to learn more about the second world war and it's preceeding events. Cornelius Ryan's accounts are well known and it was just a matter of time before I picked them up. However, I am distinctly...

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"The Longest Day" by Cornelius Ryan is the epic history of Operation Overlord, the Normandy Landings of June 6, 1944. Brought to the big screen in the movie of the same title, it will be a very familiar read for many. This book employs...

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THIS BOOK IS A PAGE BURNER, EVEN IF YOU SAW THE MOVIE. I OPENED THE FIRST PAGE AND COULD NOT STOP READING. PARTS OF THE MOVIE CAME BACK TO MAKE THE BOOK MORE REALISTIC. YOU CAN PICK OUT PARTS IN THE BOOK THAT WERE IN THE MOVIE AND WERE...

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Strategy, Human Interest, A Definitive Historical Source

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