Description: This monumental narrative provides a compelling portrait of the strategic dimesnions of the invasion that changed the course of the World War II, skillfully melding eyewitness accounts of American, British, Canadian, French, and German veterans, materials from government and private archives, and never-before-utilized sources from the homefront. Photos & maps.

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Reviews: "Definitive... His evidence is overwhelming." --John Lehman, The Wall Street Journal

"D-Day is mostly about people, but goes even further in evoking the horror, the endurance, the daring and, indeed, the human failings at Omaha Beach... Outstanding." --Raleigh Trevelyan, The New York Times Book Review

"Reading this history, you can understand why for so many of its participants, despite all the death surrounding them, life revealed itself in that moment at that place." --Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times

"Historians and public alike should be profoundly grateful to Ambrose... for assembling this comprehensive and permanent record that will be forever a resource for remembering Normandy." --Thomas B. Buell, Chicago Tribune