Pegasus Bridge: D-day: The Daring British Airborne Raid - Brossura

Ambrose, Stephen E.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 074345068X ISBN 13: 9780743450683

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster, 2002

Riassunto

D-Day before dawn. Minute by minute, hour by hour the danger grows... In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, a small detachment of British airborne troops stormed the German defence 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 by acclaimed author Stephen E. 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.

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Recensione:

'An illuminating account of an operation as strategically important as any fought on D-Day' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

'All the vividness of a movie and all the intelligence - in every sense - of fine military history. One of the best single battle accounts to come out of World War II' LOS ANGELES HERALD
'American historian who made the country's Second World War veterans feel good about themselves once more..widely regarded as one of America's pre-eminent military historians...His style of writing was highly readable, never allowing people to think history was boring. It was a skill he achieved by combining high standards of scholarship with the capacity to make the tale he was telling come alive for a lay audience...unadorned but lively prose' THE TIMES
'The author of a magisterial biography of President Nixon and Band of Brothers, the Second World War saga that became an award-winning TV series...But Ambrose was too good a historian and too great a gentleman to indulge in reach-me-down persiflage'
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
'Bestselling historian...America's leading popular historian' THE GUARDIAN
'He taught as he wrote, well and clearly' THE INDEPENDENT
'This gripping tale of heroism brings the wartime experience brilliantly to life . . . A hugely talented historian' EVENING POST
'It reads like a good novel - fast paced, moving and full of memorable characters - but also brings a piece of history vividly to life' JACK

L'autore:

Stephen E. Ambrose, leading World War II historian, was the author of numerous books on history including the Number 1 bestselling BAND OF BROTHERS, D-DAY (on which SAVING PRIVATE RYAN was based) PEGASUS BRIDGE and WILD BLUE. He is founder of the Eisenhower Center and the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans. He died in 2002.

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• Editore: Simon & Schuster
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 074345068X
• ISBN 13: 9780743450683
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 256