Stephen E Ambrose

On the basis of 1400 oral histories from the men who were there, Stephen E. Ambrose reveals that the intricate plan for the invasion of France in June 1944 had to be abandoned before the first shot was fired. The true story of D-Day, as Ambrose relates it, is about the citizen soldiers - junior officers and enlisted men - taking the initiative to act on their own to break through Hitler's Atlantic Wall when they realised that nothing was as they had...

This volume tells the story of the men of the remarkable Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, US Army. It tells how they fought, went hungry, froze, and died, took 150 percent casualties and considered the Purple Heart a badge of office.