The Americans at D-Day

Award-winning historian John C. McManus presents the first volume of his definitive account of D-Day, focusing on the pivotal American experience. Drawing on extensive archival research and hundreds of firsthand accounts, McManus vividly chronicles the weeks leading up to June 6, 1944, and the monumental day itself. From the build-up in England and daring airborne drops behind German lines to the brutal dawn landings on Utah and Omaha Beaches, this gripping narrative explores the strategies of figures like Eisenhower and Bradley alongside the harrowing realities faced by American privates. McManus reveals what drove these soldiers to fight and triumph, capturing D-Day as the moment America began its indelible march to the forefront of the Western world. Hailed by Thomas Fleming as "a definitive account."

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