{"id":1324,"date":"2019-06-05T14:04:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T14:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2025-09-29T03:08:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T03:08:17","slug":"latest-read-re-read-actually-the-longest-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1324","title":{"rendered":"Latest Read (re-read actually): &#8220;The Longest Day&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The classic about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Longest-Day-Classic-Epic-D-Day-ebook\/dp\/B000SEIXZW\/ref=sr_1_2?crid=11SPDC0CIYU4M&amp;keywords=the+longest+day&amp;qid=1559757463&amp;s=gateway&amp;sprefix=the+longest+day%2Caps%2C141&amp;sr=8-2\">the 24 hours of D-Day, June 6th, 1944<\/a>. A great narrative. Of course it was made into a justly famous movie. But the book is so worth reading. The title comes from something the German General Erwin Rommel said to his staff months before the invasion; that the day of the invasion &quot;Would be The Longest Day&quot; both for the Allies and Germany.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20240a48bf13c200d-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The longest day\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e20240a48bf13c200d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20240a48bf13c200d-150wi\" style=\"width: 140px;\" title=\"The longest day\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you do read it, google&#0160; &quot;Normandy D-Day map&quot; because the one thing the book lacks is a clear understanding of the geography; it&#39;s a narrative about the people. But one of the simple maps that pops up on a search is helpful .<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The classic about the 24 hours of D-Day, June 6th, 1944. A great narrative. Of course it was made into a justly famous movie. But the book is so worth reading. The title comes from something the German General Erwin Rommel said to his staff months before the invasion; that the day of the invasion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7627,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions\/7627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}