I hope that book is somewhere being appreciated and shared.

I am thinking about IamMightySore's comment about western culture giving a lot of gravity to D-Day and it reminds me of the battle of Gettysburg, for a couple of reasons. On the one hand, no one at the time saw Gettysburg as the decisive Northern victory of the American Civil War that many people see it as today (Lee never ventured so far North again); at the time, it was a major battle, to be sure, but the war went on, just as WWII did after D-Day, the largest amphibious invasion in recorded history. I was thinking of the 2nd Battalion, U.S. Army Rangers who scaled cliff walls on D-Day, took the high ground at Pointe du Hoc, and destroyed German gun emplacements guarding Omaha and Utah beaches. Most of their number got wiped out, but they accomplished their mission, allowing the invasion to proceed, just as the 20th Maine held Little Round Top against long odds, saving the Union flank and probably the battle of Gettysburg in the process. It's true we give gravity to events after they happen, but I do believe D-Day was the turning point of WWII , just as Gettysburg was for the Civil War.