A veteran journalist fascinated by the experiences of ordinary people caught up in fear and crisis, Cornelius Ryan combined exhaustive research with a novelist's gift for storytelling in his brilliant World War II classics The Longest Day (1959) and A Bridge Too Far (1974). For each book Ryan interviewed or corresponded with hundreds of military veterans and civilian participants, weaving their individual stories together in books at once epic in scale and intimate in focus. A visit to the Normandy beaches in 1949 inspired ...
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A veteran journalist fascinated by the experiences of ordinary people caught up in fear and crisis, Cornelius Ryan combined exhaustive research with a novelist's gift for storytelling in his brilliant World War II classics The Longest Day (1959) and A Bridge Too Far (1974). For each book Ryan interviewed or corresponded with hundreds of military veterans and civilian participants, weaving their individual stories together in books at once epic in scale and intimate in focus. A visit to the Normandy beaches in 1949 inspired Ryan to write a book about D-Day, a task that took a decade to complete. The Longest Day is a democratic history in which American paratrooper John Steele, hanging from a church steeple in the midst of battle, and German infantryman Josef H???ager, trapped inside a besieged bunker, share the stage with top commanders General Dwight Eisenhower and Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. Ryan captures the nervous anticipation felt by Allied servicemen and French civilians as they await the signal for the invasion; chronicles the confused German response to the Allied onslaught; and provides cinematic depictions of the grim battle for Ste.-M???ere-???Eglise, the desperate assault on the Merville battery, and the bloody struggle to get off Omaha Beach. In Ryan's tragic masterpiece A Bridge Too Far (1974), Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery's uncharacteristically bold plan to end the war in 1944 by crossing the Rhine in Holland sets in motion the greatest airborne assault in history. Ryan narrates with consummate skill the heartbreaking hour-by-hour unraveling of Operation Market Garden as the Allied offensive encounters unexpected German resistance, precipitating a series of merciless battles fought in the Dutch countryside and the shattered streets of Nijmegen and Arnhem. Written as Ryan was fighting his own private battle with cancer, A Bridge Too Far is an unforgettable story of physical and mental suffering, bewildering confusion, stubborn endudurance, and unyielding.
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Like New. Size: 5x1x8; The Library of America; New York, 2019. Hardcover. First Printing. A Near Fine, blue woven rayon cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine, silk ribbon marker, binding firm, interior and extremities tidy, book appears unread, minimal handling marks, in a Near Fine, mild edge/corner wear, Dust Wrapper. A nice, clean and unmarked copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches]. 974pp., chronology, notes, indexed. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.
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New in new dust jacket. Enclosed in a brodart dust jacket cover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 1008 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Stated First Printing. Book does bear a "remainder" dot on the bottom spine,
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