In early June 2009, sixty-five years after history's greatest amphibious invasion at Normandy, France, ten American veterans who took part in the assault returned to the beaches of their youth to face the scars that have defined their lives. The men, from all corners of America, survived D-Day, June 6, 1944, that ultimately turned World War II against Nazi Germany. But now they were fighting new battles -- age and a gnawing worry that the war they fought to save the world from Adolf Hitler would one day be forgotten. Throughout the 11-day journey, the men visited their old air fields, towns...