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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 twenty-three-year-old father, Frank Elliott, wrote my mother, Pauline, while he was with Company A of the 741st Tank Battalion, and some she sent him at the time of the Normandy landings.
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?
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 them 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
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