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The Longest Day

The Classic Epic of D-Day

By Cornelius Ryan

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| Paperback | 9780671890919

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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 painstakiContinue

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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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