Carol from Magistra Mater read Stephen E. Ambrose’s D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II for the challenge. Here’s an excerpt from her review:
It seems overkill to write 600 pages to describe one twenty-four hour day unless that day is as momentous as D-Day. Stephen E. Ambrose begins with the Nazis defenders, wheels his way around the beaches of Normandy, expands his viewpoint to the world watching, and ultimately offers an encyclopedic scope of one of the key battles of WWII. It takes an historian and writer as skilled as Ambrose to seamlessly weave a narrative from hundreds of individual oral histories.
Read the entire review here.
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