The Boys of Pointe Du Hoc: Ronald Reagan, D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion

Brinkley, Douglas

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9780060759599: The Boys of Pointe Du Hoc: Ronald Reagan, D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion

ISBN 10: 0060759593 ISBN 13: 9780060759599

Publisher: Harperaudio, 2005

Draws on recently released documents from the Reagan Library archive to provide an in-depth account of the D-Day activities of the elite U.S. Army 2nd Rangers, recounting how they defended themselves for two days against Nazi counterattacks, in a volume that then describes President Reagan's fortieth-anniversary speech that commended their achievements. Simultaneous.

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Review:

"Riveting." -- Chicago Tribune

"Compelling reading." -- New Orleans Times-Picayune

Compelling reading. --New Orleans Times-Picayune

Riveting. --Chicago Tribune

"In this fascinating new study, Douglas Brinkley... sheds fresh light on the making of a crucial presidential moment."--Jon Meacham, author of Franklin and Winston

"A gripping account of the Rangers who scaled Pointe du Hoc; and a bold, even brilliant treatment of Reaganesque stagecraft."--Richard Norton Smith, Executive Director, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

"Riveting."--Chicago Tribune

"In this jewel of a book, Douglas Brinkley proves his skills as a master storyteller."--Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of No Ordinary Time

"Compelling reading."--New Orleans Times-Picayune

"The Boys of Pointe du Hoc are needed today.... An important and entertaining book."--Bill O'Reilly, host of The O'Reilly Factor

About the Author:

Douglas Brinkley is a professor of history at Rice University, the CNN Presidential Historian, and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and Audubon. The Chicago Tribune has dubbed him "America's new past master." His recent Cronkite won the Sperber Prize for Best Book in Journalism and was a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year. The Great Deluge won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He is a member of the Society of American Historians and the Council on Foreign Relations. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and three children.

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