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.
Book Details
Format
Paperback
ISBN-10
0671671561
ISBN-13
9780671671563
Publication Date
Nov 1988
Item Weight
0.65 pounds
Length
9.25 inch
Width
5.24 inch
Height
0.59 inch
First Sentence
It was a steel-girder bridge, painted gray, with a large water tower and superstructure.
Stephen Edward Ambrose was an American historian and biographer of U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He was a longtime professor of history at the University of New Orleans and the author of many best selling volumes of American popular history.
**Source**: [Stephen E. Ambrose](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_E._Ambrose) on Wikipedia.
