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"I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom."
- Heinrich Heine
(1797 - 1856)
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ZIN Product Number: 10175625
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 Format: Paperback, 208 pages
Edition: REISSUE
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0671671561
Release Date: Jan 1, 1997
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 3 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
"In the early morning hours of D-Day, June 6, 1944, three hundred British airborne troops attacked and captured two vital bridges flanking the invasion beaches. It was essential that these bridges fall into Allied hands; their capture would protect the beachhead from German counterattack. The troops had trained for more than a year for this {mission}. . . . The bridges were taken and held; they were later renamed 'Pegasus' (insignia of the 1st Airborne Division) in honor of their captors." (Libr J)
| | | | From The Publisher
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.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 3 Average Rating:
I wish that I had read it before visiting the bridge...
-- A reviewer, an Investment Advisor from NC., August 9, 2000
Also Recommended: The Somme (Lyn MacDonald) and They Called It Passchendaele (Lyn MacDonald)
The best book about D-Day one can find!
-- Charles Besancon, a history major at Virginia Tech, December 3, 1998
Also Recommended: Six Armies at Normandy, The Longest Day
An Insight into the Lives of a Few Brave Men 
-- Wayne, a Vet during Viet Nam, August 11, 2000
Also Recommended: Alistor Horne 'To Lose a Battle' Alistor Horne 'How Far from Austerlitz' John Keegan 'The Face of Battle' Michael Shaara 'Killer Angels'
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