On radio station KNX in Los Angeles the tune of the moment was "I'll Always Remember the Forget-Me-Nots in Your Eyes." In New York's Times Square the clock read 12:37 A.M. America was about to learn the news: D-Day had begun.Fifty years after history's most ambitious amphibious landing, this gripping chronicle captures not only the blow-by-blow fighting in Normandy, but how the fighting affected those at home...and how a long, secretive season of planning had kept everyone, including the Germans, in the dark.Drawing on the actual words of the soldiers, journalists, sailors, and medics who were cast up on the beaches of France, America at D-Day presents a heroic panorama of courage and loss, confusion and coordinated military brilliance. From the difficult crossing of a storm-swept English Channel to the chaotic landing of U.S. soldiers...from the siege of Pointe du Hoc to the savage fighting on Omaha Beach - "Bloody Omaha" - this is the electrifying story of the battle that would be won only by "the slimmest of margins," but that would change the world forever. Read Less