The classic work by Cornelius Ryan, one of the best war reporters of the last century, tells the story of Operation Overlord, the landing of Allied forces in Normandy. This operation will forever go down in history as D-Day. The commander of the most powerful group on the Western Front, Field Marshal Rommel, suffered a crushing defeat. The warring parties suffered huge losses, and it is still difficult to give exact figures. You will see the events of that night through the eyes of eyewitnesses, you will find out how the participants in the battles and the residents of the occupied territories themselves felt. The author relies on numerous documentary sources: military logs, telephone conversations, reports.