June 6, 1944: the Allies launch the largest combined aerial and
amphibious assault in modern history. Taking the Germans by
surprise, they storm the heavily fortified defenses at the
beachheads along the Normandy coast. The cost in allied lives is
enormous (nearly 10,000 lost at Omaha alone), but the long-awaited
Second Front is finally opened, marking the beginning of the end
for Hitler's Third Reich.
Fifty years later, we are still trying to come to grips with the
impact of what General Dwight Eisenhower called "this great and
noble undertaking." In D-Day 1944 twenty noted authors reassess the
meanings and lessons of this monumental event and show why it
retains such a prominent place in our national memory.
Drawing upon a vast array of newly available archival sources,
these authors extend and revise our understanding of coalition
warmaking, the controversy over opening the Second Front, the
logistics of operations BOLERO and OVERLORD, air and naval
operations, small unit training and combat, the unique
contributions of "special forces" and of ULTRA and FORTITUDE
intelligence, the war zone experience for French civilians,
Eisenhower's military and diplomatic leadership, and the
comparative performances of the American, British, and Canadian
forces in combat.
Combining crisp analysis with provocative insights, D-Day 1944
also features a foreword by prominent historian John Eisenhower, as
well as valuable eyewitness commentaries by General Omar Bradley,
Vice-Admiral Friedrich Ruge (German Navy), Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist Don Whitehead, and George Marshall's biographer Forrest
Pogue. Together these essays remind us why a half century later
D-Day remains one of the true defining moments of this epochal
conflict.
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