Shaara delivers yet again with The Steel Wave, a historical narrative of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, and the subsequent seizing of the Cotentin Peninsula and the German army's escape from Patton and Montgomery's clutches (and escape that would come to haunt the Allies in the Ardennes). Paired with Shaara's novel I've read Stephen E. Ambrose's D-Day, one of the most comprehensive accounts of June 6, 1944. It's a really good read, but at times tiresome: Ambrose packs so much information that simply reading about what happened on Omaha Beach takes over 100 pages. Next up is Shaara's No Less Than Victory, which rounds up his "World War Two: Europe" trilogy from the liberation of France to the German surrender; and accompanying it is Ambrose's Citizen Soldiers, a chronological accounting of the American and British war effort in the western front following D-Day.
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