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Pegasus Bridge and Merville Battery
Carl Shilleto
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Description for Pegasus Bridge and Merville Battery
Paperback. This battlefield guide tells of how the objectives of D-Day were achieved and relates the battles to the area as it is today. It contains details of museums, memorials, cemeteries, tours and associated organisations, all of which will unravel the history of the area to the visitor and armchair traveller alike. Num Pages: 184 pages, Illustrated. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 350.
This battlefield guide is the companion work to Merville Battery & The Dives Bridges. Together, these two books form the fully revised and updated edition of the previous best selling Battleground Europe Series book Pegasus Bridge & Merville Battery.This book examines, in great detail, the attack by 2 Oxf Bucks and engineers of the British 6th Airborne Division, in six gliders, on the Caen Canal and River Orne bridges in the early hours of D-Day, 6 June 1944. It also describes part of the battle for the village of Benouville by 7 Para and Ranville by 13 Para. It was ... Read more
This battlefield guide is the companion work to Merville Battery & The Dives Bridges. Together, these two books form the fully revised and updated edition of the previous best selling Battleground Europe Series book Pegasus Bridge & Merville Battery.This book examines, in great detail, the attack by 2 Oxf Bucks and engineers of the British 6th Airborne Division, in six gliders, on the Caen Canal and River Orne bridges in the early hours of D-Day, 6 June 1944. It also describes part of the battle for the village of Benouville by 7 Para and Ranville by 13 Para. It was ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
184
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848843097
SKU
V9781848843097
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Ref
99-1
Reviews for Pegasus Bridge and Merville Battery
The battlefield tours are organised quite logically, with one each for Pegasus Bridge and Horsa Bridge and a third looking at the German counter-attacked and Allied reinforcements. The tours are written as a mix of narrative account of the fighting, well supported by eye witness accounts, mixed with the tour details - instruction and explanations of what can ... Read more