D-Day

This book is the epic story of men at the most demanding moment of their lives, when the horrors, complexities, and triumphs of life are laid bare.

Distinguished historian Stephen E. 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.

The action begins at midnight, June 5/6, when the first British and American airborne troops jumped into France, and ends at midnight, June 6/7.

The book draws on more than 1,400 interviews with American, British, Canadian, French, and German veterans, revealing how the original plans for the invasion had to be abandoned and how enlisted men and junior officers acted on their own initiative.