D-Day, June 6, 1944
It is the young men born into the false prosperity of the 1920s and brought up in the bitter realities of the Depression of the 1930s that this book is about. The literature they read as youngsters was anti-war and cynical, portraying patriots as suckers, slackers and heroes. None of them wanted to be part of another war. They wanted to be throwing baseballs, not handgrenades; shooting.22s at rabbits, not M-1s at other young men. But when the test came, when freedom had to be fought for or abandoned, they fought (from the Prologue).
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- Here are a few:
- Sun Tzu The Art of War
- Stephen Ambrose D-Day: June 6, 1944
- Fred Brooks The Mythical Man Month
- Kim, Behr, & Spafford The Phoenix Project
- Gene Kranz Failure is not an Option
- Acemoglu & Robinson Why Nations Fail
Some astute HN'ers may note not all of these directly relate to supply chains and logistics: but they all touch on aspects of logistics - especially on underlying assumptions that different societal norms will have on how you view the field
- D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches by Stephen Ambrose
As I was reading the account of the assault on Omaha and Utah beaches, a lot of the stories reminded me of the opening scenes of Saving Private Ryan. Eventually the similarities got so great that I looked it up and, sure enough, the author of the script of SPR based those scenes on this book.
Every single vignette of horror which you see in that film really happened. If anything I think the film under-exaggerated the events unfortunately. I don't think I can watch that film the same way again.
