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" wrote William Maxwell in The New Yorker

June and Day have sacrificed so much for the people of the Republic—and each other—and now their country is on the brink of a new existence

Sand and Steel: The D-Day Invasion and the Liberation of France Nature_Gift_Guide and many other beloved classics—wasPeter Caddick Adams's account of the Allied invasion of France in June 1944 matches the monumental achievement of his book on the Battle of the Bulge, Snow and Steel, which Richard Overy has called the "standard history of this climactic confrontation in the West." Sand and Steel gives us D Day, arguably the greatest and most consequential military operation of modern times, beginning with the years of painstaking and costly preparation, through to