D-Day
by Stephen E. Ambrose
June 6 1944 from the planning to midnight, told through hundreds of veterans' accounts: the airborne drops, Omaha, Utah, the British and Canadian beaches. Ambrose's thesis is that junior officers and sergeants improvised the victory.
Read it if…
you want the day through the people who fought it.
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Skip it if…
you want strategy; it is ground-level.
Try instead: Citizen Soldiers →
Three things you will actually use
- Plans fail; trained initiative succeeds.
- Junior leaders decide battles.
- Preparation makes improvisation possible.
Do this first
Read the Omaha Beach chapters.
Our verdict
The day, ground-level.
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