"The Boys of Pointe du Hoc" Topic

"Browsing through my local library's audio book collection online, "Pointe du Hoc" grabbed my attention. It was only after making good headway into The Boys of Pointe du Hoc by Douglas Brinkley when I realized that it was yet another book with a misleading title. "The Boys of Point du Hoc" referred not to the US Army Rangers who scaled the impossible cliffs during the Normandy invasion in 1944 and captured key pieces of German artillery, but rather it referred to Ronald Reagan's famous 1984 speech. While two of the three elements of the sub-title featured WW2-related topics, the content did not reflect so. The book's official marketing material described it as a "riveting account of the brave U.S. Army Rangers who stormed the coast of Normandy"; perhaps true, but such "riveting accounts" amounted to only a few pages of the book. Although I ultimately found myself learning a great deal about Ronald Reagan, including his WW2-era service with the US 18th Army Air Force Base Unit, which produced military training films, I was disappointed that this book became an unintentional diversion when I had hoped to pick up a book about the Normandy invasion…"
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Amicalement
Armand

Irrelevant…nothing to see here or there.