Non-Fiction
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Every Man a Hero | 2019 | Buy |
Ray Lambert (1920-2021) was a World War II veteran who served as a combat medic with the 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division. He was on Omaha Beach during the D-Day landings on June 6, 1944, where he treated wounded soldiers while under heavy enemy fire. Lambert was himself wounded multiple times that day and spent months recovering in military hospitals.
His memoir, Every Man a Hero (2019), was co-written with Jim DeFelice and published when Lambert was 98 years old. The book covers not just D-Day but Lambert’s full wartime experience, including earlier campaigns in North Africa and Sicily. It also describes his upbringing in rural Alabama and how he came to enlist in the Army.
Lambert passed away in 2021 at the age of 100. He had become a well-known figure among D-Day historians and was present at the 75th anniversary commemoration of the Normandy invasion in 2019, the same year his book was published. Every Man a Hero remains an important firsthand account of what medics faced during one of the war’s most significant operations.