The Greatest War: D-Day and the Assault on Europe Volume II by Gerald Astor is a nonfiction book written from the perspective of the men who fought. It is composed from oral histories of the war. From the title, it seems to start at D-Day; however, D-Day is not until the midpoint of the book. The title is also misleading in that it indicates it is about the European portion of World War II; however, there are accounts from the Pacific islands too. Don’t get me wrong, this is not a knock on the book. The accounts from all theaters are excellent and worth the read. In Astor’s words, he “present[s] a sense of what the American fighting man…experienced in terms of what he thought, felt, saw, heard and tried to do.” Astor does an excellent job of this.
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