Invasion: The Story of D-Day

Invasion: The Story of D-Day by Bruce Bliven, Random House, 2001

The battle on the coast of Normandy in June, 1944, which was the turning point of World War II. Bruce Bliven Jr. was born on Jan. 31, 1916, he wrote three books about the city's history and one about the whole state, ''including Buffalo,'' as he said in a remark published in ''Contemporary Authors.'' Mr. Bliven wrote briefly for a newspaper in Stroudsburg, Pa., and for The Manchester Guardian, the British paper, before graduating from Harvard in 1937. He then wrote editorials for The New York Post, leaving to serve in World War II. He was a lieutenant in the field artillery and took part in the D-Day landings in Normandy and wrote a children's book about it a dozen years later to find out what happened.

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