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I liked the author‘s narration a better than the many primary source quotes he used to illustrate (and expand on) the things he was talking about. Partly, that may have been the smaller font of the quotes vs my eyes! I sometimes skimmed over some of those quotes. But the amount of detail and research that went into this is amazing. Very much like Cornelius Ryan‘s account of D-Day as a whole (published in 1959).

A weird comfort, hope and inspiration of mine is this fact:

What percentage of the French population
participated in the Resistance?

First off, active resisters before D-Day constituted not a small minority of the French population but a TINY ONE-perhaps as low as two percent of the people were actively engaged in publishing underground newspapers, sabotage operations, intelligence gathering,recruiting, or participating in one of the networks.

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The idea that a dispute about world politics could finish off a marriage wasn't by then a surprise... The fault lines that ran through a crumbling Europe, he and his friends had found, ran through their own lives as well. "If I ever divorce Dorothy, I'll name Adolf Hitler as co-respondent," Thompson's husband, the Nobel laureate Sinclair Lewis, liked to say. It was only half in jest.

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Prompt: Gary Oldman

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I‘ve posted this book before & posted it for Memorial Day too but I bought it after my first visit to Pearl Harbor & the Arizona Memorial right after I moved to Hawaii & it has always stuck in my mind. Here‘s to remembering & honoring all our service people, especially the ones who have made the ultimate sacrifice.

I enjoyed this one. Here is a link to my gr review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3325897944

This book is well worth the time.

Volunteering at our friends of the library shop this morning. Found some great stuff! I‘m particularly jazzed about the tagged book. My grandfather fought in the Battle of the Bulge and the copy of this book I snagged is the original 1959 edition.📚💕

75th anniversary of D-Day. I've been fortunate enough that French trip as a kid allowed me to see Omaha Beach, Point-du-Hoc, the Longue-sur-Mer batteries, the Normandy American Cemetery, La Cambe German war cemetery, and the Caen Memorial Museum which focuses itself on peace. While I know I didn't grasp the enormity of it at the time, it did fuel my lifelong interest in WWII history.