Historian presents new view of D-day invasion

October 21, 2004

Adrian Lewis, a rising star in the field of military history, reveals how the mysteriously flawed plans for the D-Day invasion of 1944 led to both an uncanny victory and the bloodiest battle in human history.

Lewis, associate professor of history at the University of North Texas and author of Omaha Beach: A flawed Victory, is part of The Michael J. Colligan History Lecture Series, History's Scandals and Mysteries. He will speak Tuesday, October 26, beginning at 7:30 p.m. in The Harry T. Wilks Conference Center on the campus of Miami University Hamilton. The event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.

According to Dr. Michael Carrafiello, Director of The History Project, "Professor Lewis, who is a retired US Army Major and graduate of West Point, has produced a strikingly revisionist account of what he considers to be the mysteriously flawed planning (by "Ike," "Monty," and others) behind the epic, and ultimately successful, D-Day operation of June 6, 1944. Lewis has clearly established himself as the next Stephen Ambrose, and so his intellectually vigorous reconsideration of history's greatest invasion is sure to be both thought provoking and highly informative."