A review by lindseysparks
D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches by Stephen E. Ambrose

4.0

I love history but don't typically like military history. I tend to be much more interested in the homefront or soldiers' stories than battle details. Ambrose (who wrote Band of Brothers) excels at telling stories while also providing a military history. This is all about D-Day, and after visiting Omaha Beach and Point du Hoc I wanted more detail about the day. This covered all the details of how it happened, interspersed with stories that brought it to life. It's completely insane. We're lucky that many of the Allied soldiers in Normandy weren't actually Nazis - many of them were conscripted Poles, Czechs and other non-Germans who didn't really want to fight. Seeing the cliffs makes me wonder how they managed to climb them. It's crazy.