The Longest Day : The D-Day Story, June 6th, 1944

最长的一天：1944诺曼底登陆（二战史诗三部曲）

基本信息

Author：Cornelius Ryan

Format：Paperback | 352 pages

Dimensions：129 x 198 x 27mm | 350g

Publication date：31 Jul 2019

Publisher：Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Publication City/Country：New York, United States

Language：English

ISBN10：1838603441

ISBN13：9781838603441

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书籍简介

1944年6月6日，来自12个不同国家的15.6万人的部队，1.1万架飞机，7000艘军舰，24小时作战。诺曼底登陆日是盟军入侵希特勒强大的“欧洲堡垒”的开始，是历史上规模最大的一次两栖入侵。在此之前或之后，从未有过这样的战斗。但是，除了这些统计数字和60多年后的今天，诺曼底登陆日的事件中还有什么仍然如此引人注目呢?那些在法国海滩上战斗和牺牲的人的勇气?入侵计划有多大胆?隆美尔“最长的一天”，预示着二战结束的开始。作为这场战争中具有决定性意义的战役之一，诺曼底登陆被描绘成第三帝国的黑暗开始被扫除的时刻。这是诺曼底登陆日的故事，通过超过1000名幸存者的声音讲述——从盟军高级官员和德国官员，到黎明前登陆诺曼底的伞兵，到奋力上岸的步兵和保卫海岸的德国军队。科尼利厄斯·瑞恩抓住了诺曼底登陆日的恐怖和荣耀，用情感和引人注目的细节讲述了多年来激发灵感的战术规划导致了入侵，它的史诗般的实施，每一次运气和个人英雄主义行为，这些后来定义了这场战斗。用作者的话来说，《最漫长的一天》不是一个关于战争的故事，而是关于人类勇气的故事。

6 June, 1944. 156,000 troops from 12 different countries, 11,000 aircraft, 7,000 naval vessels, 24 hours. D-Day - the beginning of the Allied invasion of Hitler's formidable 'Fortress Europe' - was the largest amphibious invasion in history. There has never been a battle like it, before or since. But beyond the statistics and over sixty years on, what is it about the events of D-Day that remain so compelling? The courage of the men who fought and died on the beaches of France? The sheer boldness of the invasion plan? Or the fact that this, Rommel's 'longest day', heralded the beginning of the end of World War II. One of the defining battles of the war, D-Day is scored into the imagination as the moment when the darkness of the Third Reich began to be swept away. This is the story of D-Day, told through the voices of over 1,000 survivors - from high-ranking Allied and German officers, to the paratroopers who landed in Normandy before dawn, the infantry who struggled ashore and the German troops who defended the coast.Cornelius Ryan captures the horror and the glory of D-Day, relating in emotive and compelling detail the years of inspired tactical planning that led up to the invasion, its epic implementation and every stroke of luck and individual act of heroism that would later define the battle. In the words of its author, The Longest Day is a story not of war, but of the courage of man.

作者简介

Cornelius Ryan（1920-1974），著名的爱尔兰裔美国新闻工作者和作家，以第二次世界大战期间广受欢迎的军事历史书籍而闻名，其中包括《最长的一天》和《两座桥梁》，均被拍成重要电影。 他的职业生涯始于1941年，当时是《每日电讯报》的战地通讯员，最初报道了欧洲的空战，其间他进行了14次轰炸任务，然后加入了巴顿的第三军团，他的行动一直持续到战争结束。 1945年，他调任至太平洋，1946年又调任至耶路撒冷。 1947年，他移居美国，为《时代》杂志工作，在那里他报道了战后原子测试和1948年以色列战争的报道。他被俄亥俄州立大学授予荣誉军团勋章和荣誉文学博士，该大学是诺曼底登陆日政府档案之外最大的一手资料收藏地。

Cornelius Ryan (1920-1974) was a celebrated Irish-American journalist and author, most famous for his popular military history books on World War II, including The Longest Day and A Bridge Two Far, both of which were made into major films. He began his career as war correspondent for The Daily Telegraph in 1941 and initially covered the air war in Europe, during which he flew on 14 bombing missions before joining Patton's Third Army, whose actions he covered until the end of the war. In 1945 he transferred to cover the Pacific and in 1946, Jerusalem. In 1947 he moved to the US to work for Time, where he reported on post-war atomic testing and on the Israeli war of 1948. He was awarded the Legion d'honneur and an honorary D.Litt from Ohio University, where the Cornelius Ryan Collection - one of the largest single collections of firsthand information outside government archives on D-Day - is housed.