Longest Shore

Before dawn on 6 June 1944, an armada of nearly seven thousand ships crept toward a sleeping coast in occupied France. In the darkness above, thousands of paratroopers fell from the sky into hedgerow and flooded field. By nightfall, a hundred and fifty thousand men had forced their way onto five code-named beaches — Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, Sword — and the liberation of Western Europe had begun. B...