Sainte-Mere-Eglise & Mederet: Zone d'operations aeroportees americaines du jour j

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After his books about the Pointe du Hoc, WN 62 and recently Pegasus Bridge and the Melville Battery, von Keusgen gives us here a lively chronological account of the airborne attacks carried out by the legendary 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions in the first hours of the Battle of Normandy.

Not only is the text accompanied by American eyewitness accounts of the very bitter fighting around Sainte—Mère—Eglise, the flooded zones and the Merderet Bridges, but also by the accounts of...