Stephen Ambrose has done a great service for the new mass of readers who have been drawn into the fiftieth anniversary celebrations of World War II. His D-Day June 6, 1944 is a masterful narrative, replete with first-hand accounts that give a true feel for the ferocity of combat at Normandy. As a scholarly work, the book falls short on some of the lofty claims of the author, but as a popular piece it is a ringing celebration of the courage of the American "soldiers of democracy" (26).

Clearly the strength of Ambrose's work is its superb use of oral histories. The author ...

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