A critique on D-Day by Stephen Ambrose.

One of the most overused essay topics is as follows: "If you could go back in history and meet one person, who would it be?" Typically, the answer is one of the famous presidents such as George Washington or Abraham Lincoln. Why? Historians have examined the lives of these men, wrote about their failures and triumphs, people read them, and most have derived that Washington or Lincoln were superior men and should be revered forever …

…personal interviews from both sides of the war and creates a document that is incredibly unbiased. What makes D-Day remarkable is that the reader can live through the people and events of both the Allies and the Axis. Opposed to reading a historical reference, which typically tends to be tedious in nature, Ambrose organizes D-Day in a way it becomes both a history textbook and an epic story in one. Both thumbs up for D-Day!