The book D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II was written by Stephen E. Ambrose, and published by Simon & Schuester in New York. This book begins with a prologue that is followed by 32 chapters, a glossary, endnotes, a bibliography, an appendix, and an index. The first ten chapters give the events that lead up to D-Day, it discusses a variety of topics ranging from, general topics like the attackers and the defenders, to topics like what kind of weather conditions would be necessary for the invasion. Chapters 11 through 14 discuss the air invasion that occurred shortly after midnight, and the air and naval bombardment of the beaches prior to the infantry landing on the Normandy shore. Chapters 15 through 25 cover the landings on the beaches and the struggles of the American forces to get up the bluffs and inland. Chapter 26 titled "The World Holds Its Breath", is exactly what it says, it gives a view of the home front during the invasion. Chapters 27 through 31 talk about other allied landings on the beaches. Chapter 32 ends the book by giving a summary of the accomplishments of D-Day, and giving the general feelings toward the success of the inv

chapter introduces the commanders of both armies. The fist part of the chapter talks about how the lives of Dwight Eisenhower and Erwin Rommel. Were almost a mirror image of the others both were of German descent both played sports, both joined their country's respective military academies, both had risen to the top through there missions in North Africa in the earlier part of WWII. Next the author describes the confusion that Rommel has to deal with because of the German command structure. He also talks about the strenuous schedules of both Rommel and Eisenhower. This chapter is important because it allows the reader to understand where the leaders are thinking when they are making their decisions on what way to win the war.Chapters four through ten discuss all of the little details that went into planning the operation. Many obvious things such as deciding on a landing place were very complicates, due to the geography of the French coast, not only did the landing site have to have a way to get infantry on land, it also had to have a port at the site or preferably nearby. Then they had to consider the strength of the German fortification on and around that site, and the ability to get reinforcements there quickly for a German counter offensive. The Allied commanders also had the duty of figuring out how to best utilize their assets. They had a far superior Navy, they controlled the skies over France, and they had more resources. Next they would have to plan the attack, and due to the size of the invasion, this proved to be a very difficult task, plans changed right up to the day of the invasion. This also meant that they would have to arrange for the transport of the troops, and their equipment. The soldiers who were going ashore, trained for months for one day. The soldiers of the Allied Expeditionary Force (AEF) endured some of the most strenuous training of any army ever assembled. The practiced landings and disabling pill boxes, and other things that they would have to do on the French beaches. Live ammunition was used often and there were a few deaths because of it. In the end though, the training appeared to have been a major factor when all else was going wrong on D-Day. In the next three chapter the author tell how troops were concentrated to southern England, loaded onto the boats and the factors that made them decide to go on June 6th. Beginning in early May troops began to pour into the southern England in the thousands. They lived in sausages, which were similar to a giant livestock pen that you would have seen before you sent a cow off to slaughter. They remained in these until loading began on May 31st . The men of the AEF passed the time on the boats by gambling. The original plan was to go on June 5th or the first available day after that. They chose the 5th because of the tide. Th

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