D-Day: The Invasion of Europe
D-Day: The Invasion of Europe
American Heritage Publishing Company | 1962 | ISBN: N/A | English | 156 pages | PDF | 19.8 MB
We have here a story not simply of a great victory in war but of one of the outstanding human achievements of all time. Operation Overlord was the Allied design to invade France and liberate Western Europe from Nazi tyranny. How it was begun — on D-Day, the sixth of June, 1944 — will be understood as these pages unfold. Because there is military glory enough in what happened on that day to warm the American heart through several generations, I prefer to think of it as a superb human effort that dared and achieved the impossible. The task was infinitely larger than any that men had tried in former times, and we may be sure that we will never see its like again, such are the limits set on bold adventure in the atomic era.