D-Day,
June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II, by Stephen E. Ambrose. Simon
& Schuster, 1994.
Film Focus:
Director: Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton &
Bernard Wicki
Cast: Robert Mitchum, John Wayne
Academy Award Winner: Best Cinematography--B&W (1962)
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Matt Damon
Academy Award Winner: Best Director (1999)
Books About D-Day
D-Day,
June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II, by Stephen E. Ambrose. Simon
& Schuster, 1994.
Pegasus
Bridge: June 6, 1944, by Stephen E. Ambrose. Simon & Schuster,
1985.
D-Day,
by Duncan Anderson. Smithmark, 1994, 1993.
June
6, 1944: The Voices of D-Day, compiled by Gerald Astor. St. Martin's,
1994.
Voices
from D-Day, by Jonathan Bastable. D&C, 2004..
Our
Finest Day: D-Day: June 6, 1944, by Mark Bowden. Chronicle, 2002
Hoodwinking
Hitler: The Normandy Deception, by William B. Breuer. Preager, 1993.
The
D-Day Encyclopedia, edited by David G. Chandler & James Lawton
Collins, Jr. Simon & Schuster, 1994.
D-Day,
6 June, 1944: The Normandy Landings, by Richard Collier. Abbeville,
1992.
Dropzone
Normandy: The Story of the American and British Airborne Assault on D-Day 1944,
by Napier Crookenden. Scribner, 1976.
D-Day:
The Normandy Invasion in Retrospect. Papers from a symposium at the Eisnhower
Library, June 6-7, 1969. Univ. of Kansas, 1971.
Decision
in Normandy, by Carlo D'Este. Dutton, 1983.
Voices
of D-Day: The Story of the Allied Invasion, Told by Those Who Were There,
edited by Ronald J. Drez. Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1944.
D-Day,
by Martin Gilbert. Wiley, 2004.
America
at D-Day: A Book of Remebrance, by Richard Goldstein. Delta, 1994.
Overlord:
D-Day and the Battle for Normandy, by Max Hastings. Simon & Schuster,
1984.
Fortitude:
The D-Day Deception Campaign, by Roger Hesketh. Overlook, 2000.
Six
Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris, June 6th-August
25th, 1944, by John Keegan. Viking Press, 1982.
Omaha
Beach, A Flawed Victory, by Adrian R. Lewis. Univ. of NC Press, 2001.
The
D-Day Atlas: The Definitive Account of the Allied Invasion of Normandy,
by John Man. Facts on File, 1994.
Night
Drop: The American Airborne Invasion of Normandy, by S. L. A. Marshall.
Little, Brown, 1962.
Nothing
Less Than Victory: An Oral History of D-Day, by Russell Miller. Morrow,
1993.
The
D-Day Companion: Leading Historians Explore History's Greatest Amphibian Assualt,
ed by Jane Penrose. Osprey, 2004..
The
Secret of D-Day, by Gilles Perrault. Little, Brown, 1965.
The
Longest Day: June 6, 1944, by Cornelius Ryan. 1959.
Ten
Days to D-Day: Citizens and Soldiers on the Eve of the Invasion, by
David Stafford. LB, 2004.
Spearhead of Invasion: D-Day, by R. W. Thompson. Ballantine,
1968. (Reprint)
D-Day:
The Greatest Invasion--A People's History, by Dan Van der Vat. Bloomsbury,
2003.
Normandy:
The Real Story--How Ordinary Allied Soldiers Defeated Hitler, by Denis
Whitaker & Shelagh Whitaker. Presidio, 2004.
The
Fighting First: The Untold Story of the Big Red One on D-Day, by Flint
Whitlock. Westview, 2004.
Other Titles
of Interest
Band
of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne:
From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest, by Stephen E. Ambrose. Simon
& Schuster, 1992.
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. Simon
& Schuster, 1997.
The
Desert Fox in Normandy: Rommel's Defense if Fortress Europe, by Samuel
W. Mitcham, Jr. Preager, 1997.
Parachute
Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third
Reich, by David Kenyon Webster. Louisiana Univ. Press, 1994.
Saving
Private Ryan: The Men, the Mission, the Movie, photographs by David
James. Newmarket, 1988.
Ten
Days to D-Day. (DVD) A&E, 2004.
A
Traveller's Guide to D-Day and the Battle for Normandy, by Carl Shilleto
& Mike Tolhurst. Interlink, 2000.
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