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"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" -- the 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, it 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 definitive history of one of our history's most important days."
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