The enduring legacy of Cornelius Ryan's "The Longest Day"

New York, May 1, 2019 — At a talk commemorating Library of America's reissue of Cornelius Ryan's two classic WWII histories, THE LONGEST DAY and A BRIDGE TOO FAR, historian and journalist Rick Atkinson describes some of the thematic and literary aspects of THE LONGEST DAY that made it so influential. Atkinson edited the Ryan book for Library of America. (2 min., 3 sec.)

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