The Longest Day

Book Critique of The Longest Day Cornelius Ryan, born in Dublin, Ireland in 1920, worked as a reporter covering the battles in Europe from 1941-1945 and then the final months of the Pacific Campaign. His articles were printed in both Reuters and the London Daily Telegraph. His first book was The Longest Day, published in 1959, selling over 4 million copies in 27 different editions. In 1962 a director named Darryl Zannuck made the book into a movie. Ryan’s …showed first 75 words of 857 total…

…showed last 75 words of 857 total…real by using a huge number of sources, including, but not only, letters, pictures, and interviews with veterans of the combat. His first hand knowledge of happenings in during the war also helped him. This leaves very few if any serious questions left to the reader, or anything that the reader would need further explanation on. In all his books, Ryan stressed realism and was meticulous in attention to detail and his extensive research notes.