the longest day by cornelius ryan

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The Longest Day : A Book Review

The Longest Day is one of the most accurate , detailed , and objective depiction of the war in Europe . Its author Cornelius Ryan , an Irish-American journalist , was itself a war correspondent for the The Daily Telegraph , a news company in London which specialized on covering war news in Europe . His first real experience of the war came during the Battle of Britain , the first German attempt to force Britain to surrender by aerial bombing . Cornelius Ryan saw the Royal

Air Force systematically destroyed the Luftwaffe (German Air Force ) in the skies of Britain . With the German invasion of the Low Countries and France , he began to become pessimistic of Allied victory . In his diary , he argued that the only chance for victory lies in the participation of the United States in this turbulent conflict (Ryan , 21

The German invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece confirmed his fear . Now Great Britain stood alone in the struggle against Hitler . The German attack of the Soviet Union brought new hope to him . The respite though proved temporary as news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor reached his ears . Finally , the United States declared war on the Axis powers American economy was transformed into a huge war factory geared towards the defeat of the Axis powers . Cornelius Ryan began to gather information regarding the United States war preparations . On November 1942 , American and British forces landed in North Africa . After months of fighting , the...