Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Book Display - D-Day, June 6, 1944

Here're the materials put on display to mark the 64th anniversary of D-Day:

The 101st Airborne at Normandy by Mark A. Bando

The Boys of Pointe du Hoc: Ronald Reagan, D-Day and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion by Douglas Brinkley

Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945 by Stephen E. Ambrose

D-Day by Brigadier Peter Young

D-Day 1944 edited by Theodore A. Wilson

D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climatic Battle of World War II by Stephen E. Ambrose

D-Day: The Story of the Longest Day by Duncan Anderson

Dwight D. Eisenhower: Commander-In-Chief by Biography Channel, DVD

The First Men In: U.S. Paratroopers and the Fight to Save D-Day by Ed Ruggero (excellent!)

Fortitude: The D-Day Deception Campaign by Roger Hesketh

Hitler Slept Late: And Other Blunders that Cost Him the War by James P. Duffy

The Invasion Before Normandy: The Secret Battle of Slapton Sands by Edwin P. Hoyt

June 6, 1944: The Voices of D-Day by Gerald Astor

The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan (of course this had to be included...)

The Man Who Never Was by Ewen Montagu (book was FASCINATING; movie was awful)

Overlord D-Day, June 6, 1944 by Max Hastings

Ten Days to D-Day: Citizens and Soldiers on the Eve of the Invasion by David Stafford

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