Sword: D-Day – Trial By Battle Max Hastings William Collins Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

‘The Messy Dirty Bloody Reality Of Operation Overlord Comes Alive In Sword Hastings’s Portrait The Individual Soldiers Who Risked Their Lives On Beaches Normandy He Brings These Men To Life With Sensitivity And Beautiful Prose\ Times 6 June 1944 When Allied Armies Landed D-Day Second World War Had Already Lasted Almost Five Years Yet Many British American Troops Invaded Were Virgin Never Before Committed Battle They Quit England Summertime Face Within Hours A Storm Machine-Gun Mortar Fire Witnessed Scenes Above All Sudden Death Such As No Exercise Prepared Them For Veteran Chronicler Max Hastings Explores Extraordinary Vividness Actions Commando Brigade Montgomery’s 3Rd Infantry 6Th Airborne Divisions Around Single Beach Describes Frustrations Hopes Loves Fears Through Apparently Interminable Training Preparing Then Triumphs Tragedies Beyond Here Are Assaults Caen Canal Bridge Merville Battery Battles Shoreline Against German Strongpoints Inland Narrated Explained Insights That Hastings’ Decades Study Veterans’ Interviews New Archive Research Enable Him Deploy Book Offers Searching Analysis Why Did Not Reach Montgomery Promised Churchill Would – Story Brigadier Was Sacked Failure There Is Also Host Personal Portraits Key Figures From Leader Lord Lovat Famously Brave But Supremely Arrogant Colonel Jim Eadie Whose Tanks Staffordshire Yeomanry Repulsed Panzer Division Last Some Humbler Participants Whom Things Happened This You Have Read It Blend Narrative Human Insight Made Biting Like His Earlier Works Sunday 1 Bestseller Σελίδες: 400 Διαστάσεις: 15 3X15 3Cm