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Article: D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II.(Brief Article)
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- March 22, 1995
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Stephen Ambrose has done a great service for the new mass of readers who have been drawn into the fiftieth anniversary celebrations of World War II. His D-Day June 6, 1944 is a masterful narrative, replete with first-hand accounts that give a true feel for the ferocity of combat at Normandy. As a scholarly work, the book falls short on some of the lofty claims of the author, but as a popular piece it is a ringing celebration of the courage of the American "soldiers of democracy" (26).
Clearly the strength of Ambrose's work is its superb use of oral histories. The author is the director of the Eisenhower Center and president of the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans. ...