" I've read countless books about World War Two and in particular D-Day. My grandfather was there in the days after the invasion and I've spent my life trying to fill in the blanks of his story. This book is special, it doesn't spend as much time on the failures and triumphs of "The Longest Day", but instead it focuses on the human story of war. If you take the death, destruction, and senselessness out of war, and only focus on the human spirit as it relates to it, the human war story is a marvelous thing. This book does that. It's a sad love story, it's triumph and tragedy, it's the desire to live at all costs, and the struggle of loss. Two years ago, my own small American town lost its first soldier since Vietnam. Our town was as emotional as I've ever seen it for the loss of one of its sons. I can only imagine the true state of human emotion in Bedford, Virginia when it found out in one day that 19 of her sons were not coming home. This book is a must read for any history lover, and should be required reading in high school history class. "
— David, 12/25/2013