Every Man a Hero

A STUNNING NEW FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF THE D-DAY INVASION, BY A HERO OF THE FIRST WAVE AT OMAHA BEACH.Timed to the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Normandy invasion, an extraordinary eyewitness account of D-Day by a decorated U.S. Army medic who landed with the first wave on June 6, 1944, and saved dozens of his fellow American soldiers on Omaha Beach, despite having his back broken and being wounded at least three times.D-Day. June 6, 1944. At five a.m., U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Ray Lambert worked his way through a throng of nervous soldiers to a wind-swept deck on a troopship off the coast of France. Within moments, a familiar voice cut through the wind and rumble of the ship's diesels. "Ray!" called his brother, Bill. The two men ducked into a corner away from the wind. Ray, head of a medical team for the First Division's famed 16th Infantry Regiment, had already won a silver star for running through German lines to rescue trapped men in Africa,...