Pegasus Bridge Horsa Bridge

Author : Carl Shilleto
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783830206

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Pegasus Bridge & Horsa Bridge by Carl Shilleto Pdf

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 Bnouville by 7 Para and Ranville by 13 Para. It was the combination of these actions that allowed the link-up between the commandos and airborne troops on D-Day. Thereby, forming a bridgehead to help secure the eastern flank of the greatest combined military operation in history; Operation OVERLORD.In addition to explaining how these objectives were achieved, this battlefield guide relates the battles to the area as it is today. The book contains details of the museums, memorials, cemeteries and associated organizations. All of which will unravel the history of the area to the visitor and armchair traveler alike.To further aid the battlefield tourist, GPS data is also provided for either satellite navigation by vehicle or for viewing on Google Earth.

Author : Carl Shilleto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Operation Overlord
ISBN : OCLC:743281598

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Pegasus Bridge & Horsa Bridge by Carl Shilleto Pdf

Author : Michael Bawtree
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0991938526

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The Pegasus Bridge Show by Michael Bawtree Pdf

Author : Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439126677

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Pegasus Bridge by Stephen E. Ambrose Pdf

The acclaimed WWII historian’s “illuminating account of . . . an operation as strategically important as any fought on D-Day” (The New York Times Book Review). 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. It was a mission so crucial that, had it been unsuccessful, the entire Normandy invasion might have failed. In Pegasus Bridge, Stephen Ambrose draws on original interviews with British, German, and French survivors to present a thrilling, ground-level view of the battle. 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.

Author : Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1988-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780671671563

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Pegasus Bridge by Stephen E. Ambrose Pdf

Recounts the initial airborne mission that paved the way for the Normandy landings, detailing the mission's preparations, hand-to-hand fighting, heroics, and importance

Author : Neil Barber
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473830097

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The Pegasus and Orne Bridges by Neil Barber Pdf

This WWII history chronicles a daring airborne mission that was vital to the success of Operation Tonga, D-Day, and the liberation of France. When the British Army landed on Sword Beach in Normandy, their only exit eastward required passage across the River Orne and the Caen Canal. But the two bridges fording these waterways—the Pegasus and Orne Bridges—were heavily guarded and wired for demolition in case of a Germans retreat. Capturing these bridges would be next to impossible. Operation Deadstick, conducted by Major John Howard and his company of Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, was a superbly daring, brilliantly executed 'coup de main' assault. The glider-borne troops not only seized both bridges but faced a ferocious and prolonged German counterattack. Neil Barber, a military historian and expert in British airborne operations, uses extensive personal accounts to tell this incredible story of Allied victory. Covering events and operations from Ranville in the East to Benouville in the West, Pegasus and Orne Bridges chronicles the combat of the 7th, 12th and 13th Parachute Battalions and reinforcements such as the Commandos, seaborne engineers and the Warwicks.

Author : Michael Bawtree
Publisher : Mereo Books
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1861510527

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The Pegasus Bridge Show by Michael Bawtree Pdf

This dramatic story by famous actor and producer Michael Bawtree is told in 'free-cantering' verse, and tells of the capture of Pegasus and Horsa Bridges during the opening minutes of D-Day, 1944. This book is a dramatized account of the critical operation to capture Pegasus Bridge by Allied forces in 1944, in the opening stages of D-Day. It is based on an earlier show and DVD presentation by the same author, with original words and music that set the event within the history of previous cross-Channel campaigns. This account draws on the memories of some of those involved and the author's own experience of serving in the same regiment. As with the show, all profits from sales of the book will be donated to The Veterans' Charity, set up to provide assistance to ex-servicemen and women in time of need.

Author : Will Fowler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472806352

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Pegasus Bridge by Will Fowler Pdf

The night before D-Day, light infantry and a detachment of Royal Engineers landed by gliders at Pegasus Bridge, which spanned the Caen Canal. Quickly overwhelming the guards, they managed to hold the bridge and help prevent German reinforcements from reaching the British landing beaches. Will Fowler provides a detailed blow-by-blow account of this classic wartime raid.

Author : Denis Edwards
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780850528695

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Devil's Own Luck by Denis Edwards Pdf

Although strictly forbidden to keep diaries, Denis Edwards managed to record his experiences throughout nearly all his time in Europe in 1944-45. He brilliantly conveys what it was like to be facing death, day after day, night after night, with never a bed to sleep in nor a hot meal to go home to. This is warfare in the raw ' brutal, yet humorous, immensely tragic, but sadly, all true.

Author : Cornelius Ryan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439126462

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The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan Pdf

The unparalleled, classic work of history that recreates the battle that changed World War II—the Allied invasion of Normandy. The Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan’s unsurpassed account of D-Day, a book that endures as a masterpiece of military history. In this compelling tale of courage and heroism, glory and tragedy, Ryan painstakingly recreates the fateful hours that preceded and followed the massive invasion of Normandy to retell the story of an epic battle that would turn the tide against world fascism and free Europe from the grip of Nazi Germany. This book, first published in 1959, is a must for anyone who loves history, as well as for anyone who wants to better understand how free nations prevailed at a time when darkness enshrouded the earth.

Author : Will Fowler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849082877

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Pegasus Bridge by Will Fowler Pdf

The night before D-Day, light infantry and a detachment of Royal Engineers landed by gliders at Pegasus Bridge, which spanned the Caen Canal. Quickly overwhelming the guards, they managed to hold the bridge and help prevent German reinforcements from reaching the British landing beaches. Will Fowler provides a detailed blow-by-blow account of this classic wartime raid.

Author : Tim Saunders,Mike Peters
Publisher : Pen & Sword
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1848843380

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Assault on Normandy by Tim Saunders,Mike Peters Pdf

Pegasus Bridge charts the mounting of the operation that sent the 6th Airborne Division behind enemy lines to take and preserve the Caen Canal Bridge, cutting German reinforcements off from the upcoming fighting on Normandy's beaches, and to create and maintain supply lines from Sword Beach to the 6th Airborne. The deployment of the 6th Airborne Division, including D Co., 2nd Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry was made in the Horsa Gliders : wooden gliders that could land in virtual silence. Café Gondrée reveals the history of those who lived at the Café during the German occupation, and how they listened in on German conversations and passed along that information to the British. The Café is now a museum and shrine to the members of the 6th Airborne Division who helped liberate the town.

Author : Carl Shilleto
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783830008

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Merville Battery & the Dives Bridges by Carl Shilleto Pdf

This battlefield guide is the companion work to Pegasus Bridge & Horsa Bridge. 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 9 Para Bn of the British 6th Airborne Division on the German gun emplacement known as the Merville Battery on D-Day, 6 June 1944. The actions of 8 Para, 12 Para, Canadian 1 Para, attached engineer and support units, and commando raids in this area of Normandy are also told. In particular, the importance of destroying the five bridges, and a drainage culvert, in the Dives valley are explained along with the importance of taking and holding the high ground to the north-east of Caen. These combined actions resulted in the protection and securing of the left flank of the greatest combined military operation in history; Operation OVERLORD.In addition to explaining how these objectives were achieved, this battlefield guide relates the battles to the area as it is today. The book contains details of the museums, memorials, cemeteries and associated organizations. All of which will unravel the history of the area to the visitor and armchair traveler alike.To further aid the battlefield tourist, GPS data is also provided for either satellite navigation by vehicle or for viewing on Google Earth.

Author : Denis Edwards
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473813595

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The Devil's Own Luck by Denis Edwards Pdf

“A superb and well written book, highly recommended as a true account of one man’s war from Pegasus Bridge to the Baltic during WWII.” —The Armourer Although strictly forbidden to keep diaries, Denis Edwards managed to record his experiences throughout nearly all his time in Europe in 1944–45. He brilliantly conveys what it was like to be facing death, day after day, night after night, with never a bed to sleep in nor a hot meal to go home to. This is warfare in the raw—brutal, yet humorous, immensely tragic, but sadly, all true. “[An] excellent book . . . chronicles his journey with the 2nd Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry during pre-invasion training, then on to Normandy, the Ardennes, the Rhine Crossing and the advance to the Baltic Sea in 1945.” —The Pegasus Archive “From my perspective, if you have any interest in the 2nd Bn. Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, and their participation in the action at Pegasus Bridge, the battle for Normandy and the Rhine Crossings, you can do no better than to refer to The Devil’s Own Luck.” —Recollections of WWII “Edwards’ thorough descriptions of his daily activities in Normandy bring his narrative to life, from eating rations to digging trenches to the strain of being under continuous bombardment . . . The Devil’s Own Luck is fast-paced, well-written, and holds the reader’s attention.” —Colour Sergeant Tombstone’s History Pages

Author : Spencer C. Tucker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440849756

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D-Day by Spencer C. Tucker Pdf

This outstanding overview of D-Day makes clear its great importance in military and world history, identifies mistakes committed on both sides, and explains all aspects of the 1944 Allied invasion of France and the Normandy Campaign that followed. The beach landings at Normandy, France, in June of 1944 were of critical importance in the outcome of World War II, and as a consequence, served to determine the economic and political state of the modern world as we know it. This latest reference book edited by esteemed historian Spencer C. Tucker supplies easy-to-understand overview entries on the Normandy Invasion ("Operation OVERLORD") and the European Theater in World War II as well as entries treating specific topics such as key individuals, technical innovations, weapons systems, command structures, terrain and logistical difficulties, and the role played by weather. Readers will come to understand why the eventual success of the Allied forces in the D-Day operations was so hard-fought and came at a tremendous cost of life. The book addresses the immense difficulty of supplying tens of thousands of soldiers—many of them inexperienced in combat—and countless tons of equipment and vehicles to the invasion force from over the beaches, after most of the teams landed in the wrong locations, and when many command structures were wiped out almost immediately upon landing; and it explains how these factors impacted the combat on the ground and resulted in the Allied forces' careful planning going awry. The book also describes the elaborate deception carried out by the Allies regarding the invasion landing site and how these efforts impacted battle developments, and it presents nine primary documents that treat various aspects of the battle, including the lengthy Allied plan for the invasion and primary sources of directives regarding the battle and technical innovations.