D-Day 1944 (3)

Sword Beach & the British Airborne Landings

AvKen Ford

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

Del 105 i serien Campaign

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A highly illustrated and detailed study of the Sword Beach & the British Airborne Landings. At 0016hrs on 6 June 1944 a Horsa glider ground to a halt a mere 60 yards from the Orne Canal bridge at Bénouville in Normandy. A small group of British paratroopers burst from it and stormed the bridge within minutes. The Allied liberation of Nazi-occupied Europe had begun. Within a few hours landing craft would swarm towards Ouistreham as British 3rd Division stormed ashore at Sword Beach.The battle would then begin to break through to relieve the paratroopers. In the third of the D-Day volumes Ken Ford details the assault by British 6th Airborne Division and the British landings on Sword Beach that secured the vital left flank of the invasion.

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Utgivningsdatum:2002-07-25
Mått:185 x 247 x 8 mm
Vikt:300 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Campaign
Antal sidor:96
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Illustratör:Howard Gerrard
ISBN:9781841763668

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Ken Ford was born in Hampshire in 1943. He trained as an engineer and spent almost thirty years in the telecommunications industry. He now spends his time as an author and a bookseller specialising in military history. He has written a number of books on various Second World War subjects. Ken now lives in Southampton.Howard Gerrard studied at the Wallasey School of Art and has been a freelance designer and illustrator for over 20 years. He has won both the Society of British Aerospace Companies Award and the Wilkinson Sword Trophy and has illustrated a number of books for Osprey including Campaign 92: St Nazaire and Campaign 96: Okinawa 1945. Howard lives and works in Kent.

Innehållsförteckning

Origins of the BattleChronologyOpposing CommandersOpposing ArmiesOpposing PlansThe LandingsThe Airborne AssaultSword BeachHolding and expanding the BeachheadAftermathThe Battlefield TodayBibliographyIndex