Part 1 of Essay
Cornelius Ryan, the author of the novel The Longest Day, the classic epic of D-Day, was among one of the preeminent war correspondents of his time. He flew fourteen bombing missions with the Eighth and Ninth U.S airforces, and covered the D-Day landings and the advance of General Patton’s Third Army across France and Germ ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... also reveals many intriguing sidelights: the five crossword puzzles in The London Daily Telegraph containing the key code words of the invasion; the mysterious ill-wrapped envelope which burst open in Chicago’s central post office dumping out the plans for D-Day and the decoding by an alert German intelligence officer of the actual Allied message to the French underground announcing the time of invasion. The first half of The Longest Day is devoted to the allied preparations of attack and the German preparation ....