D-Day : June 6, 1944 -- The Climactic Battle of WWII

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Summary: The Most Gripping Book I Had Ever Read!!!!!!!
Review: Once I started reading this book i couldn't put it down! Ambrose is a amazing writer. He writes it like a novel!! At some points It felt like i was on the beach! Its amazing what those men did on that beach! If your intrested in world War 2 or D-Day this is the book for you!

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Summary: When our grandparents saved the world...
Review: In the late 20th century it is almost incomprehensible to consider an evil so pervasive, so oppressive, and so murderous as Hitler's Reich. An entire society brainwashed to conquer the world and to enslave entire countries were not stopped by will power, or flower power, or by mere rhetoric. Nazism was stopped by citizens from every walk of life in the world's great democracies -- the battle for freedom began on the beaches of northern France on June 6, 1944. The Americans at Omaha and Utah, the British and Canadians at Sword and Juno suffered almost insuffrable casualties -- not to mention the hedgerow fighting that followed. Ambrose's book is an account about people, for people. It may give you an identity that you did not even know you had -- the sons and daughters and grandchildren of an entire generation that secured for us every freedom we enjoy today.

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Summary: Ambrose is such a big liar
Review: This book was written just to inflate the american ego. Ambrose says Omaha was the most violent battle in World War II. This is an outrageous lie! Those who fought in Stalingrad, Berlin or Kursk know what I'm talking about. And the way the author overlooks the participation of the British and Canadians is absolutely despicable. Read the Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer instead.

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Summary: A "must"for every library
Review: This is a truly wonderful book, bringing alive the horrors and wonder of one of the most important days of the Century. Ambrose's unabashed admiration for the men who took part in D-Day can be cloying to some, but in view of the event, totally warranted. I was fortunate enough to be reading the book while traveling in Normandy this past summer and the descriptions of the places and conditions experienced in 1944 added immeasurably to the trip. This was my second experience with an Ambrose book (the first was his biography of Nixon, which I found far too kind to Nixon) and it makes me want to read more of his work.

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Summary: Must be mandatory reading for college students!
Review: I'm suprised at how many students entering college are oblivious to our nation's sacrifice in WWII. This book is detailed, exciting, factual, and gripping. What a way to learn history. If you thought the opening scen of Saving Private Ryan was gut wrenching, read this! You will be moved. Have we really done enough for our vets?

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Summary: The most realistic book I have ever read.
Review: D-Day is the best book out there today. It is so realistic in the discriptions that he (the author) gave. It is possibly the best book on the Normandy invasion ever written. It never got dry, it was interesting the whole book through and it feels like you are reading a novel at times (because it is so interesting). If your looking for a great book to read, this is the one.

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Summary: D-Day by Ambrose
Review: Very impressing book.Hope nobody will ever forget what those men have done!

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Summary: Gripping account of D-Day
Review: Saving Private Ryan and The Triumph and the Glory opened my eyes to the terrible drama of the war in Europe. I wanted to know more so I asked around and was told in no uncertain terms that Stephen Ambrose and Cornelius Ryan were the fellows to read. I read The Longest Day and D-Day June 6, 1944, and was just overwhelmed by the ferocity of the fighting on that Fremch shoreline. Ambrose writes with a respect and love for the common GI that appeals to me. After all THEY were the guys who won the war, not the generals.

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Summary: brave Virginian boys
Review: I hope this book will earn the state of Virginia some national recognition. A company of Virginian boys in the 116th Regiment, I noted, suffered the heaviest casualties in the first wave on Omaha Beach for the sake of victory. My state has had some very great people!

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Summary: Overall, both an enjoyable and informative read.
Review: Ambrose's book should have a space in any historian's library, or the library of anyone who is even slightly interested in the World War II period. It is a highly detailed, logical progression through the events leading up to and through D-Day which leaves one feeling satisfied and informed on the subject. Ambrose draws heavily from the oral histories of the privates and NCOs who did the bulk of the fighting and in doing so throws a helmet on the head of the reader and thrusts him into battle. His description of events is somewhat biased (though, admittedly, if his facts are solid the bias is justifiable), as he speaks somewhat disapprovingly of the British troops and their leaders while lauding praise on the GI's. Overall, however, the work seems to be a straight-forward, no-nonsense portrayal of "the longest day." I suggest it to everyone.