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The Longest Day is a 1959 book by Cornelius Ryan telling the story of D-Day, the first day of the World War II invasion of Normandy.It details the coup de main operation by gliderborne troops, which captured the Caen canal and Orne river bridges (Pegasus Bridge and Horsa Bridge) before the main assault on the Normandy beaches.
The book was written by range editor Steve Cole. As BBC Books did not want the editor writing books for the series, Cole asked his friend, Michael Collier, for permission to publish under his name. Cole had Rebecca Levene edit the book. [1] Cole and Collier repeated the arrangement for The Taint. Collier later became an author of historical ...
The Longest Day, a 1962 film based on the book of the same name, features "Lord Lovat", played by Peter Lawford. There is some suggestion that the charlatan commando character "Trimmer" in Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour trilogy of novels is based on Lovat. [23]
55 D-Day quotes honoring one of the most important dates in world history. ... It will become for the Allies, as well as for the Germans, the longest day—the longest day.” — German Field ...
It was an instant success, and film rights were purchased. Ryan helped to write the screenplay for the 1962 The Longest Day. Darryl F. Zanuck paid the author US$175,000 for the screen rights to the book. [4] Ryan's 1957 book One Minute to Ditch! is about the successful ocean ditching of a Pan American Boeing 377 Stratocruiser. [5]
The Longest Day is a 1962 American epic historical war drama film based on Cornelius Ryan's 1959 non-fiction book of the same name [3] about the D-Day landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944. The film was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck for 20th Century Fox , and is directed by Ken Annakin (British and French exteriors), Andrew Marton (American ...
The Longest Day, a 1962 war film based on Ryan's book; Japan's Longest Day, a Japanese 1967 war film on the surrender of Japan in World War II; The Longest Day, a 1980 wargame by Avalon Hill "The Longest Day" (Land of the Lost), an episode of the 1974 series Land of the Lost; Longest Day, a 1998 novel by Michael Collier set in the Doctor Who ...
The longest day must have an end; The longest journey starts with a single step; The Moon is made of green cheese; The more the merrier; The more things change, the more they stay the same; The only disability in life is a bad attitude – Scott Hamilton; The only way to understand a woman is to love her; The old wooden spoon beats me down