How the Allies Won on D-Day by Giles Milton Mac

This is a story of such magnitude that it cannot be contained in one volume and represent all parts of the story equally and yet that is exactly what Giles Milton has done. This is not your typical history book overflowing with mindnumbing facts and figures. Instead, the author has taken this heroic Herculean effort of so many people and countries and made it personal. Every chapter is riddled with stories and actual accounts from the men and women, on both sides of the trenches. What they experienced firsthand becomes our shared experience. There is still plenty of gruesome and barbaric warfare and the loss of so many lives is staggering but you can't help yourself from having a better understanding of what happened through these eyewitness accounts. It makes what should be a reading challenge much more readable. You are left in awe of what they accomplished, grateful for your family members who served and hope that never again will so many perish in this way.