Pegasus Bridge

ISBN-13:	9780671671563
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Publication date:	11/15/1988
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	31,419
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.60(d)

In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, a small detachment of British airborne troops stormed the German defense 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 of it by acclaimed author Stephen 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.