The Longest Day, By: Cornelius Ryan, Simon & Shuster, 1959 Cornelius Ryan, the author of the novel The Longest Day, the classic epic of D-Day, was among one of the preeminent war correspondents of his time. He flew fourteen bombing missions with the Eighth and Ninth U.S airforces, and covered the D-Day landings and the advance of General Patton’s Third Army across France and Germany. In the novel The Longest Day, Cornelius Ryan takes the reader through the German and Allied forces preparations for D-Day and through the experience of the men who fought it. It is the definitive account of th