• D-Day's Real Lessons — Newsweek's Jon Meacham on what Bush could learn from Churchill and FDR about his own fight.
• Photos: D-Day 60 Years Later — TIME audio and visual remembrance, including conversations with WWII veterans.
• Deception: The other 'D' in D-Day — How Operation Bodyguard, five fake offenses designed to distract and divert German forces away from Normandy, helped save the world from Hitler.
• On Omaha Beach Today, Where's the Comradeship? — The New York Times on strained French-American relations.
• D-Day OD — Slate's David Greenberg on why World War II nostalgia has gone too far. He writes: "D-Day enthusiasm, like all rituals of memory, says more about the present than it does about the past."
• Cronkite: Eisenhower's Return to Normandy — NPR audio of Walter Cronkite's conversations with Dwight Eisenhower on the 20th anniversary of D-Day. Great stuff I happened to catch on the radio.
I didn't read the Operation Bodyguard article, but I recently read a history of the British Intel Ops during WWII - code named Enigma and Ultra - the book is "Bodygiard of Lies" from a typically classic Churchill quote: "Sometimes the truth is so precious that it must be protected by a bodyguard of lies." Awesome stuff.
Between Ronnie Raygun dying and the anniversary of D-Day I decided to immerse myself in some WWII and Cold War history so I'm set as far as reading goes for the next few weeks...
Posted by henry at June 7, 2004 12:30 PM