Longest Day

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  I'd read this book in its Italian translation in the mid 80s and I'd loved it. The original version is even more powerful, with its concise, clipped and journalistic style, in conveying the sense of history and the ravages of those few days of war that changed the world in 1944. Ryan writes several ... (continue)

  I'd read this book in its Italian translation in the mid 80s and I'd loved it. The original version is even more powerful, with its concise, clipped and journalistic style, in conveying the sense of history and the ravages of those few days of war that changed the world in 1944. Ryan writes several years after the facts, with the benefit of extensive research, yet his style is that of an "on the field" reportage. The many personal stories that unfold within the larger historic facts range from the mundane to the tragic, via the heroic and, at times, the book has downright poignant and moving paragraphs that make the reader feel the harsh truth of the war in a way less spectacular but more real than movie attempts like the movie based on the book, and bearing the same title, or the later Saving Private Ryan. Definitely a must read.

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• English Books
• Paperback
• ISBN-10: 0671527533
• ISBN-13: 9780671527532
• Publisher: Pocket
• Pub date: Jul 02, 1984
• Also available as: Hardcover, Audio Cassette and eBook

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