Longest Day

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6 June 1944. 156 000 troops from 12 different countries 11 000 aircraft 7 000 naval vessels 24 hours. D-Day
- the beginning of the Allied invasion of Hitlers formidable Fortress Europe
- was the largest amphibious invasion in history. There has never been a battle like it before or since. But beyond the statistics & over sixty years on what is it about the events of D-Day that remain so compelling? The courage of the men who fought & died on the beaches of France? The sheer boldness of the invasion plan? Or the fact that this Rommels longest day heralded the beginning of the end of World War II. One of the defining battles of the war D-Day is scored into the imagination as the moment when the darkness of the Third Reich began to be swept away. This is the story of D-Day told through the voices of over 1 000 survivors
- from high-ranking Allied & German officers to the paratroopers who landed in Normandy before dawn the infantry who struggled ashore & the German troops who defended the coast. Cornelius Ryan captures the horror & the glory of D-Day relating in emotive & compelling detail the years of inspired tactical planning that led up to the invasion its epic implementation & every stroke of luck & individual act of heroism that would later define the battle. In the words of its author The Longest Day is a story not of war but of the courage of man.