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...CORNELIUS RYAN...
...Longest Day, by Cornelius Ryan. Crisp writing and detailed reporting of World War II's D-day make this one of the most tautly exciting of the "day" books...
...LONGEST DAY (350 pp.)-Cornelius Ryan-Simon & Schuster...
...position; and he was to keep muttering through that fateful invasion day, as he rushed back to Normandy: "How stupid of me, how stupid of me." It is the number of fortuitous errors and outright bungles on the German side that lends fascination and suspense to Author Cornelius Ryan's reconstruction of The Longest Day. Author Ryan, onetime senior writer for Collier's, has dug assiduously into the histories, war diaries and personal recollections of all the D-day fighters he could find on either side, in a full two years of interviewing. As a result, the familiar...
Yachtsman Cornelius Shields, "the grey fox of Long Island Sound"). Both Suzy and Shields had slipped out of Paris-quietly, deftly, on the sunny side of discreet. "Suzy is just taking a vacation," said her French husband, who has been seeing her now and then. "Ah oui," said the gossips knowingly. Meanwhile, sentimental fans remembered Suzy as the young heroine of Ten North Frederick, who responds to the passion of her roommate's father, Gary Cooper. And, coincidentally, Actor Cooper, 58, is the real-life son-in-law of Paul V. Shields...