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    WAVES OF VICTORY

    Apr 02, 2019 2 minutes

    LANDING ON THE EDGE OF ETERNITY

    Twenty-Four Hours at Omaha Beach

    By Robert Kershaw, 376 pp. Pegasus Books, 2018. $27.95.

    MOST WORLD WAR II DEVOTEES are familiar with the visceral depiction of the carnage on Omaha Beach from the D-Day invasion scene of the classic war movie . In, British Army veteran Robert Kershaw has provided more than 300 pages of similarly gripping narrative. The author bases his version of events mostly on published memoirs and military unit accounts, so there is little new here for knowledgeable readers. But he portrays very well the bloody chaos that reigned from the Colleville cliffs to Pointe du Hoc along the Normandy coast on June 6, 1944.

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