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End: May 5, 2014
Contact: nhoffman@press.org
More Info: http://www.press.org/events/john-c-mcmanus-dead-and-those-about-die-d-day-big-red-one-omaha-beach

Military historian John C. McManus will discuss and sign copies of his new book “The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach." The book details a white-knuckle account of the 1st Infantry Division’s harrowing D-Day assault on the eastern sector of Omaha Beach. Tickets are $5 NPC members; $10 public John C. McManus is an award-winning professor, author, and military historian. He is one of America’s leading experts on the history of modern American soldiers in combat and he has written numerous well received books on the subject. He is a full professor of U.S. military history at Missouri University of Science and Technology and he frequently serves an expert for documentaries.