Ryan dedicated his book for all the men of D-Day. The book includes a section on the casualties of D-Day and also lists the contributors including their service details on the day of the invasion and their occupations at the time the book was first published. Ryan's book is divided into three parts: the first part is titled "The Wait", the second part is named "The Night" and the third part is named "The Day". Field Marshal Erwin Rommel commander-in-chief of Army Group B had his headquarters in the castle of the village which was the seat of the Duc de La Rochefoucauld. The book refers to the village as being the most occupied village in occupied France and states that for each of the 543 inhabitants of La Roche-Guyon there were more than three German soldiers in the village and surrounding area. The book begins and ends in the village of La Roche-Guyon. It is based on interviews with a cross-section of participants, including U.S., Canadian, British, French and German officers and civilians. It sold tens of millions of copies in eighteen different languages. It details the coup de main operation by gliderborne troops, which captured the Caen canal and Orne river bridges ( Pegasus Bridge and Horsa Bridge) before the main assault on the Normandy beaches. The Longest Day is a 1959 book by Cornelius Ryan telling the story of D-Day, the first day of the World War II invasion of Normandy.
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