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D-Day Revisited

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The author, laden with oral-history transcripts, spent a summer in Normandy studying the battle that marked the beginning of the end of the war in Europe.   AS PART OF THE RESEARCH for a book I am writing about D-Day, timed for the 50th anniversary (June 6, 1994), my wife, Moira, and I spent a …

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