Normandy: 70 Th Anniversary of D-Day Reading and Viewing List

Normandy: 70 th Anniversary of D-Day Reading and Viewing List

1) The Essentials

Books

Ambrose, Stephen E. D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II . New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.

Ryan, Cornelius. The Longest Day . New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959.

Film

Saving Private Ryan . Dir. Steven Spielberg. 169 min. DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures, 1998.

2) For Those Who Want to Dig A Little Deeper

Books

Ambrose, Stephen E. Pegasus Bridge, June 6, 1944 . New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985.

Atkinson, Rick. The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 . New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2013.

Brinkley, Douglas. The Boys of Pointe du Hoc: Ronald Reagan, D-Day, and the u.S. Army 2 nd Ranger Battalion . New York:Harper Perennial, 2005.

D’Este, Carlo. Decision in Normandy . Old Saybrook, CT: Konecky and Konecky, 1983.

Weigley, Russell F. Eisenhower’s Lieutenants: The Campaign of France and Germany, 1944- 1945 . Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1991.

Film

The Longest Day . Dir. Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki, and Darryl F. Zanuck. 178 min. Darryl F. Zanuck Productions, Inc., and Twenty Century Fox Film Corporation, 1962.

1 3) For Those Who Just Can’t Get Enough

Books

Ambrose, Stephen E. Band of Brothers: E Company, 506 th Regiment, 101 st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest . New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.

Balkowski, Joseph. Omaha Beach: D-Day: June 6, 1944 . Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2004.

Balkowski, Joseph. Utah Beach: The Amphibious Landing and Airborne Operations on D-Day . Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2005.

Bevan, Colin. Operation Jedburgh: D-Day and America’s First Shadow War . New York: Viking, 2006.

Buckley, John. British Armour in the Normandy Campaign 1944 . London: Frank Cass, 2004.

Buckley, John, ed. The Normandy Campaign 1944: Sixty Years On . New York: Routledge, 2006.

Copp, Terry. Fields of Fire: The Canadians in Normandy . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003.

Dolski, Michael R. “’To Set Free a Suffering Humanity’: D-Day in American Remembrance.” Ph.D. diss. 2012 (available on-line at http://cdm2458- 01.cdmhost.com/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/185506 ).

Gardner, Ian, and Roger Day. Tonight We Die as Men: The Untold Story of Third Battalion 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment from Toccoa to D-Day . Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2009.

Harrison, Gordon A. Cross-Channel Attack . 1951; reprint, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1951.

Hart, Russell A. Clash of Arms: How the Allies Won in Normandy . Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004.

Hastings, Max. Overlord: D-Day & the Battle for Normandy . New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984.

Keegan, John . Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris . New York: Viking Penguin Inc., 1982.

Kershaw, Alex. The Bedford Boys: One American Town’s Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice . Cambridge, MA: DaCapo Press, 2003.

Kershaw, Robert. D-Day: Piercing the Atlantic Wall . Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1994.

2 Lewis, Adrian R. Omaha Beach: A Flawed Victory . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

McManus, John C. The Americans at D-Day: The American Experience at the Normandy Invasion . New York: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 2004.

Miller, Russell. Nothing Less than Victory: The Oral History of D-Day . New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1993.

Mitchum, Samuel W., Jr., The Desert Fox in Normandy: Rommel’s Defense of Fortress Europe . Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997.

Murray, Williamson, and Allan R. Millett. A War to be Won: Fighting the Second World War . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000.

Penrose, Jane, ed. The D-Day Companion: Leading Historians Explore History’s Greatest Amphibious Assault . New York: Osprey Press, 2004.

Ruggero, Ed. The First Men In: U.S. Paratroopers and the Fight to Save D-Day . New York: HarperCollins, 2006.

Stillwell, Paul, ed. Assault on Normandy: First-Person Accounts from the Sea Services . Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1994.

Weingartner, Steven, ed. The Greatest Thing We Have Ever Attempted: Historical Perspectives on the Normandy Campaign . Wheaton, IL. Cantigny First Division Foundation, 1998.

Whitlock, Flint. The Fighting First: The Untold Story of the Big Red One on D-Day . Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2004.

Films

The Americanization of Emily . Dir. Arthur Hiller. 115 min. Metro-Goldwyn Mayer, 1964.

Band of Brothers . Dirs. David Frankel, Mikael Salomon, Tom Hanks, David Leland, Richard Lonbcraine, David Nutter, Phil Alden Robinson, and Tony To. HBO in association with DreamWorks Pictures, 2001.

The Big Red One – The Reconstruction . Dir. Samuel Fuller. 162 min. United Artists, 1980; Warner Brothers, 2004.

Ike: Countdown to D-Day . Dir. Robert Harmon. 89 min. Sony Pictures, 2004.