A review by fivetilnoon
The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan

5.0

This book does a fantastic job of covering the main elements of the D-Day invasion. On the Allied side, the author covers the airborne troops (British and American), the Navy, the high command, and the infantry troops (American, British, and Canadian). On the German side, he covers the infantry, the Panzer divisions, and the high command. The book also covers the French that lived in the Normandy area and how they experienced D-Day. The author's style is direct and easy to understand. He explains very complicated military manouvres clearly and mixes in plenty of anecdotes. This books's style is very similar to Stephen Ambrose's D-Day account but I thought it was a more inspiring telling. I listed to the Audible.com audio version of the book.