Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Every Man a Hero | 2019 | Ray Lambert | Buy |
Every Man a Hero is a World War II memoir by Ray Lambert, co-written with Jim DeFelice and published in 2019. Lambert served as a combat medic with the 1st Infantry Division and was on Omaha Beach during the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944. The book provides a firsthand account of that day and Lambert’s broader wartime service in North Africa, Sicily, and France.
Lambert was 98 when the book came out, making it one of the later-published D-Day memoirs by an actual participant. He attended the 75th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy that same year. The memoir covers not only combat but also Lambert’s childhood in Alabama and his life after the war, giving readers a full picture of the man behind the military service.
For readers interested in WWII history, particularly accounts from combat medics, Every Man a Hero offers a perspective that is less commonly told than that of infantry soldiers or commanding officers.