The book was awarded the Overseas Press Club Cornelius Ryan award for best non-fiction book of 2012 on international affairs.

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McCabe is curator of manuscripts for the Archives and Special Collections division at the university's Alden Library in Athens, Ohio, where the Cornelius Ryan Collection is housed.

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As for Cornelius Ryan, he was the Stephen Ambrose of his time, in the sense that he wrote massively popular books about the war against Hitler's Germany.

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