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'''''The Longest Day''''' is a 1959 book by [[Cornelius Ryan]] telling the story of [[Normandy landings|D-Day]], the first day of the [[World War II]] [[invasion of Normandy]]. It details the ''[[coup de main]]'' operation by [[Military glider|gliderborne troops]], which [[Capture of the Caen canal and Orne river bridges|captured the Caen canal and Orne river bridges]] ([[Pegasus Bridge]] and [[Horsa Bridge]]) before the main assault on the Normandy beaches. It sold tens of millions of copies in eighteen different languages.<ref name="cjr">((cite web|url=https://www.cjr.org/second_read/the_reporter_who_time_forgot.php?page=all|title= The Reporter Who Time Forgot|publisher=[[Columbia Journalism Review]]|date=May–June 2010|author= Michael Shapiro|accessdate=May 17, 2010))</ref> It is based on interviews with a cross-section of participants, including U.S., Canadian, British, French and German officers and civilians.

==Overview==
Ryan received both financial and research assistance from the ''[[Reader's Digest]]'', with excerpts from the book appearing in the Digest in June and July 1959.<ref>p. 91 Rubin, Steven J. ''Combat Films: American Realism, 1945-2010'' McFarland; 2nd Revised edition (25 July 2011)</ref> 

The book begins and ends in the village of [[La Roche-Guyon]]. The book refers to the village as being the most occupied village in occupied France and states that for each of the 543 inhabitants of [[La Roche-Guyon]] there were more than three German soldiers in the village and surrounding area. Field Marshal [[Erwin Rommel]] commander-in-chief of Army Group B had his headquarters in the castle of the village which was the seat of the [[Duc de La Rochefoucauld]].

Ryan's book is divided into three parts: the first part is titled "The Wait", the second part is named "The Night" and the third part is named "The Day". The book includes a section on the casualties of D-Day and also lists the contributors including their service details on the day of the invasion and their occupations at the time the book was first published. Ryan dedicated his book for all the men of D-Day.

Researchers spent almost three years locating survivors of D-Day and over 3000 interviews were undertaken in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France and Germany. 383 accounts of D-Day were used in the text of the book.

Senior Allied officers who assisted the author included General [[Maxwell D. Taylor]], Lieutenant General [[James M. Gavin]], Lieutenant General Sir [[Frederick E. Morgan]] and General Sir [[Richard Nelson Gale]]. German officers who assisted with the book included Generaloberst [[Franz Halder]], Hauptmann [[Hellmuth Lang]] and General der Infanterie [[Günther Blumentritt]]. The author also used Allied and German post action reports, War diaries, histories and official records.

On 6 June 1965, the author published an article "More of The Longest Day" in ''[[Reader's Digest]]'' as a supplement.<ref>((cite web|title=Cornelius Ryan Collection of World War II Papers|work=Manuscript Collection|url=http://www.library.ohiou.edu/about/collections/archives-special-collections/manuscript-collections/cornelius-ryan-collection-of-world-war-ii-papers/|accessdate=December 23, 2013))
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Editor [[Peter Schwed]] gave the book its title<ref>((Cite AV media|author=Library of Congress|author-link=Library of Congress|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5PWhN7Awng |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/Y5PWhN7Awng| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=David McCullough: 2019 National Book Festival|time=15:38|website=[[YouTube]]|publisher=Google LLC|date=October 17, 2019|accessdate=June 15, 2020))((cbignore))</ref> from a comment made by the German field marshal [[Erwin Rommel]] to his aide Hauptmann Helmuth Lang on April 22, 1944: "...the first 24 hours of the invasion will be decisive...the fate of Germany depends on the outcome...for the Allies, as well as Germany, it will be the longest day."

==Reception==
[[Simon & Schuster]] published ''The Longest Day: June 6, 1944'' in November 1959 with a first printing of 85,000 copies. The book was reprinted numerous times as it spent twenty-two weeks on The New York Times Best Sellers list<ref>https://storyoftheweek.loa.org/2019/06/the-longest-day-dawns.html</ref>

==Adaptation==
In 1962, the book was adapted into a [[The Longest Day (film)|Hollywood film of the same name]].

In May 2014, publisher Andre Deutsch released the 70th Anniversary Collector's Edition, with the addition of 120 photographs, 30 unpublished removable facsimile documents from the Cornelius Ryan Archive and cover by Brazilian photographer Rodrigo Bressane, depicting an interpretation of the iconic Helmet in Omaha Beach, as seen on the Hollywood adaptation.

==External links==
* ''The Reporter who Time Forgot'' https://archives.cjr.org/second_read/the_reporter_who_time_forgot.php

==References==
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((Cornelius Ryan))

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