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D-Day: What It Cost

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This is a story of the months prior to June 6,1944, and a few of the days following, told through some of the letters my 23-year-old father, Frank Elliott, wrote my mother, Pauline, while he was with Company A of the 741st Tank Battalion, and some that she sent him at the time of the Normandy landings.

The Man of the Century

Author: Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

Of all the Allied leaders, argues FDR's biographer, only Roosevelt saw clearly the shape of the new world they were fighting to create.

When Dismal Swamps Became Priceless Wetlands

Author: William B. Meyer

American attitudes toward wetlands have taken a 180-degree turn over the last century, and so have the battles they provoke.

The Passion of Typhoid Mary

Author: John Steele Gordon

Mary Mallon could do one thing very well, and all she wanted was to be left to it.

Chaplain Kidder’s Song

Author: Nathan Ward

A D-DAY VETERAN’S GRANDSON ATTEMPTS TO FIND THE ANSWER TO THAT MOST IMPENETRABLE QUESTION: WHAT WAS IT LIKE?

D-Day: What It Meant

Author: Charles Cawthon

A soldier who landed in the second wave on Omaha Beach assesses the broadest implications of what he and his comrades achieved there.