Реферат: America At DDay A Day Of Rememberance
until they got to the sea wall that could cover them from the blazing bullets.
The assault on Omaha beach suffered the heaviest loses. The reason why is
because the Germans had an extra division of troops there that were not
picked up by the American surveillance photos.
In the end the perseverance of the American troops held true. Even
through the toughest circumstance they still fought onward and in the end
won the battle. The American troops eventually took all the beaches of
Normandy. The individual courage of certain men were one reason why this
invasion was a success. During all of the chaos in the first hours of D-Day
the troops looked for leaders to follow, and they found them in such men as
Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. and Brigadier General Norman
Cota. If it were not for the individual courage of so many men then the
invasion might have failed. However, the mission was a success.
Richard Goldstein, the author of the book, does a very good job of
describing the invasion in great detail. Goldstein makes it seem like you are
right there on the beaches. He interviewed many of the troops that survived
the invasion and got first hand account of the events that took place on the
beaches that day. During the invasion some reports accompanied the troops
as they made the assault on the beaches. Goldstein researched all of these
newspaper articles and magazine articles. He also does a good job of
documenting where he got his information from.
Goldstein covers every aspect of the invasion in explicit detail. He
covered the preparation for the invasion, the actual invasion, and the
aftermath of the invasion. He leaves nothing to the imagination. This book
shows all of hardships of the invasion and all of the gains from the invasion.
The pictures that are in this book help put pictures in the head of the reader
and gives the reader something that they can actually visualize. After reading
this book I know a lot more about D-Day then I did before.
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