Cornelius Ryan: The Longest Day (D-Day June 6, 1944), a Bridge Too Far (Loa #318)

For the 75th anniversary of D-Day, a deluxe collector's edition gathering two gripping masterpieces of military history.Library of America presents two of the best books ever written about World War II in a deluxe collector's edition featuring 88 pages of photographs, full-color endpaper maps, rare archival material revealing how the books were written, and a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian Rick Atkinson (The Liberation Trilogy). The Longest Day tells the story of the Allies' greatest success, the Normandy invasions of June 6, 1944, Operation Overlord, A Bridge Too Far recounts perhaps their greatest failure, the catastrophic airborne invasion of Holland in September 1944, known as Operation Market Garden. Together, they reveal not only the twisting fortunes of war and the grand sweep and scale of the largest amphibious and airborne invasions ever mounted, but also the very real human experience of combat, the small but momentous individual acts...

The cheapest new copy of Cornelius Ryan: The Longest Day (D-Day June 6, 1944), a Bridge Too Far (Loa #318) is €39.98 at medimops DE. Prices checked 7 Nov 2026

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