OT: Non-Fiction books about D-Day

[512taylor]

I just finished Ambroses's book, D-Day, June 6, 1944.

Can anyone recommend a similar book on that subject that perhaps discusses actual events that participants endured?

 

[L4Dawg]

Voices of D-Day by Ambrose protégé Ronald Drez. Its an edited collection of oral histories put into print.

 

[PineGroveBully]

Three Days on the Brink by Brett Baier is a great book about the planning of D-Day

 

[L4Dawg]

Another one: Ten Days to D-Day by David Stafford. It discusses personal stories from the time in the title.

 

[L4Dawg]

The Bedford Boys by Alex Kershaw. It describes the men from Bedford VA, the town that had the most dead per capita on D-Day.

 

[L4Dawg]

The standard for the topic is of course The Longest Day by Cornelous Ryan. It's the book the movie was based on.

 

[Maroon Eagle]

Six Armies in Normandy by John Keegan is good.

 

[dhutch288]

More sports themed than military history but recently finished The All Americans by Lars Anderson. Pretty interesting about Army-Navy football players involved in D-Day.

 

[512taylor]

I just downloaded Voices of D-Day to my Kindle.

Thanks for all the recommendations.

We could certainly learn from thee brave folks how we should react to a crisis that is thrown upon us.