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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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Pegasus Bridge, Stephen E. Ambrose
- Language
- Released
- 2003
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- Pegasus Bridge
- Subtitle
- D-Day: the Daring British Airborne Raid
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Stephen E. Ambrose
- Publisher
- Pocket Books
- Released
- 2003
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 233
- ISBN10
- 074345068X
- ISBN13
- 9780743450683
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Military Fiction
- Rating
- 4.05 out of 5
- Description
- 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.