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The Longest Day de Cornelius Ryan

The Longest Day

Autor Cornelius Ryan Doug McCabe
en Limba Engleză Mixed media product – 30 apr 2014

June 6, 2014 marks the 70th anniversary of D-Day, when 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany and essentially spur the campaign that would end World War II. Nowhere are the landings at Normandy captured more eloquently and dramatically than in Cornelius Ryan's classic book "The Longest Day." Widely considered to be the most important book on D-Day ever written, "The Longest Day" has sold tens of millions of copies in 18 different languages, and inspired a star-studded 1962 film by the same name.

This new collector's edition of "The Longest Day" commemorates the 70th anniversary of the invasion with previously unpublished printed and audio archive material. Inside the beautifully designed slipcase, readers will find an unabridged reprint of the classic text, 120 meticulously researched photographs of D-Day, plus 30 previously unseen and unpublished removable facsimile documents from Ryan's own archive, including:

  • Eisenhower's handwritten note, taking responsibility if the D-Day landings failed
  • Interview transcripts and handwritten research questionnaires from key D-Day participants
  • Rommel's diary excerpts from the lead-up to D-Day in May 1944
  • Hand-annotated translations of German diaries and telephone logs
  • D-Day mission weather reports
  • Ryan's original book proposal to "Reader's Digest" explaining his new approach to military history writing
  • Six full-color battle maps

    • Historians, military enthusiasts, and anyone who genuinely loves tales of adventure and courage will be thrilled by this unsurpassed collection of D-Day memorabilia. It includes an exclusive audio CD featuring Ryan's previously unheard, original research interviews with many of D-Day's senior commanders, including Allied Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower, as well as the soldiers, paratroopers, sailors, and airmen who fought in this most famous and decisive battle of World War II.

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    Specificații

    ISBN-13: 9781438075198
    ISBN-10: 1438075197
    Pagini: 256
    Dimensiuni: 249 x 318 x 43 mm
    Greutate: 2.47 kg
    Ediția:Anniversary
    Editura: Barron's Educational Series

    Notă biografică

    Cornelius Ryan (1920-1974) was a celebrated Irish-American journalist and author, most famous for his popular military history books on World War II, including The Longest Day and A Bridge Two Far, both of which were made into major films. He began his career as war correspondent for The Daily Telegraph in 1941 and initially covered the air war in Europe, during which he flew on 14 bombing missions before joining Patton's Third Army, whose actions he covered until the end of the war. In 1945 he transferred to cover the Pacific and in 1946, Jerusalem. In 1947 he moved to the US to work for Time, where he reported on post-war atomic testing and on the Israeli war of 1948. He was awarded the Légion d'honneur and an honorary D.Litt from Ohio University, where the Cornelius Ryan Collection - one of the largest single collections of firsthand information outside government archives on D-Day - is housed.

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    Contents

    Foreword: D Day, Tuesday, June 6, 1944

    PART ONE

    THE WAIT

    PART TWO

    THE NIGHT

    PART THREE

    THE DAY

    A Note on Casualties

    D-Day Veterans: What They Do Today

    Acknowledgments

    Bibliography

    Index

    Recenzii

    Ryan's classic military study.
    Fifty years from now, the history of D-Day will, I'm sure, lean heavily on this book.
    If you have read all the accounts of D-Day or none of them, if you were in the fighting or on the sidelines, you will be spellbound, as I was, by this magnificent retelling of a glorious and tragic story.

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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 Hitler's 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 and over sixty years on, what is it about the events of D-Day that remain so compelling? The courage of the men who fought and died on the beaches of France? The sheer boldness of the invasion plan? Or the fact that this, Rommel's '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 and German officers, to the paratroopers who landed in Normandy before dawn, the infantry who struggled ashore and the German troops who defended the coast. Cornelius Ryan captures the horror and the glory of D-Day, relating in emotive and compelling detail the years of inspired tactical planning that led up to the invasion, its epic implementation and every stroke of luck and 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 men.