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Shelfari edited the description of D Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II Friday, July 31 2009.
Stephen E. Ambrose draws from more than 1,400 interviews with American, British, Canadian, French, and German veterans to create the preeminent chronicle of the most important day in the twentieth century. Ambrose reveals how the original plans for the invasion were abandoned, and how ordinary soldiers and officers acted on their own initiative. D-Day is above all the epic story of men at the most demanding moment of their existence, when the horrors, complexities, and triumphs of life are laid bare. Ambrose portrays the faces of courage and heroism, fear and determination -- what Eisenhower called "the fury of an aroused democracy" -- that shaped the victory of the citizen soldiers whom Hitler had disparaged.
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Shelfari edited the contributors of D Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II Thursday, July 23 2009.
- Added a contributor: Stephen Ambrose: (Primary Author)
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Shelfari edited the first sentence of D Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II Friday, July 17 2009.
- AT THE BEGINNING of 1944, Nazi Germany's fundamental problem was that she had conquered more territory than she could defend, but Hitler had a conqueror's mentality and he insisted on defending every inch of occupied soil.
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