D-Day: The First 24 Hours: An Hour-by-Hour Account of the Longest Day

by Jack Soren

The story of June 6, 1944, told hour by hour from H-Hour to midnight — from the paratroopers dropping into Normandy in darkness before dawn through the five beach landings to the precarious consolidation of the beachhead by nightfall.

The largest and most complex military operation ever attempted, succeeding on some beaches and nearly failing catastrophically on one, decided in the space of hours by the courage of small units, the errors of defenders, and the accumulated effects of Allied deception operations that kept 15 German divisions waiting in the Pas-de-Calais for an invasion that never came. This is what it looked like from the sand and the cockpit and the command post.

115 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 8, 2026

About the author

Jack Soren was born and raised in Toronto, Canada.

Before becoming a thriller novelist, Jack wrote software manuals, drove a cab and spent six months as a really terrible private investigator.

His debut novel THE MONARCH was short-listed for the Kobo Emerging Writer award.

He lives in the Toronto area.