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Four Hours of Fury: The Untold Story of World War II's Largest Airborne Invasion and the Final Push into Nazi Germany
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Overview
On the morning of March 24, 1945, more than two thousand Allied aircraft droned through a cloudless sky toward Germany. Escorted by swarms of darting fighters, the armada of transport planes carried 17,000 troops to be dropped, via parachute and glider, on the far banks of the Rhine River. Four hours later, after what was the war’s largest airdrop, all major objectives had been seized. The invasion smashed Germany’s last line of defense and gutted Hitler’s war machine; the war in Europe ended less than two months later.
Four Hours of Fury follows the 17th Airborne Division as they prepare for Operation Varsity, a campaign that would rival Normandy in scale and become one of the most successful and important of the war. Even as the Third Reich began to implode, it was vital for Allied troops to have direct access into Germany to guarantee victory—the 17th Airborne secured that bridgehead over the River Rhine. And yet their story has until now been relegated to history’s footnotes.
In this viscerally exciting account, paratrooper-turned-historian James Fenelon “details every aspect of the American 17th Airborne Division’s role in Operation Varsity...inspired” (The Wall Street Journal). Reminiscent of A Bridge Too Far and Masters of the Air, Four Hours of Fury does for the 17th Airborne what Band of Brothers did for the 101st. It is a captivating, action-packed tale of heroism and triumph spotlighting one of World War II’s most under-chronicled and dangerous operations.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781501179396 |
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Publisher: | Scribner |
Publication date: | 05/21/2019 |
Sold by: | SIMON & SCHUSTER |
Format: | NOOK Book |
Pages: | 448 |
Sales rank: | 230,504 |
File size: | 50 MB |
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Four Hours of Fury
Table of Contents
List of Diagrams and Maps xiii
Parachute Infantry Regiment (December 1944) Table of Organization xiv
Prologue xv
Part I December 1944-March 1945
1 "Where in the hell is everybody at?" 5
2 The Spartan 22
3 Thunder from Heaven 39
4 Deliberate and Disciplined 55
5 "Fifty percent of two is one" 68
6 Every Hour a Gift 86
7 Sequitis Bastatii 100
8 Secret Destinations 123
9 "Satanic plan of annihilation" 146
10 "Two if by sea" 158
Part II March 24, 1945
11 "Good hunting" 179
12 "Let's go!" 197
13 "The Yanks are coming!" 218
14 "Now is when you pray" 238
15 "I shall fear no evil" 260
16 "Are they going to shoot us now?" 268
17 "A very dirty business" 277
18 "We had luck with us" 291
19 "Organized resistance has now ceased" 306
20 "This is a pursuit" 321
Epilogue 339
Acknowledgments 343
Abbreviations 349
Notes 351
Selected Sources 393
Index 405