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Pegasus Bridge: D-Day - the Daring British Airborne Raid Book
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D-Day before dawn. Minute by minute hour by hour the danger grows...In the early morning hours of June 6 1944 a small detachment of British airborne troops stormed the German defence forces and paved the way for the Allied invasion of Europe. Pegasus Bridge was the first engagement of D-Day the turning point of World War II. This gripping account by acclaimed author Stephen E. Ambrose brings to life a daring mission so crucial that had it been unsuccessful the entire Normandy invasion might have failed. Ambrose traces each step of the preparations over many months to the minute-by-minute excitement of the hand-to-hand confrontations on the bridge. This is a story of heroism and cowardice kindness and brutality - the stuff of all great adventures.
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Blackwell
From the #1 bestselling author of BAND OF BROTHERS comes a breathtaking minute-by-minute account of the first engagement of D-Day, a British operation that was crucial to the ultimate success of the Normandy invasion. D-Day before dawn.
- 074345068X
- 9780743450683
- Stephen E. Ambrose
- 4 November 2002
- Pocket Books
- Paperback (Book)
- 224
- New edition
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