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Sword Beach : D-Day baptism by fire / Max Hastings.,
Van Pelt Library D756.5.N6 H355 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hastings, Max, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France--Normandy.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, British.
- Great Britain. Army. Infantry Division, 3rd--History--World War, 1939-1945.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain. Army. Airborne Division, 6th--History--World War, 1939-1945.
- Great Britain. Royal Marines--History--World War, 1939-1945.
- Normandy (France)--History, Military--20th century.
- Normandy (France).
- Physical Description:
- xxvii, 372 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, 2025.
- Summary:
- From the best-selling military historian, a thrilling account of the valiant British role in the D-Day invasion.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Glossary
- Garrisoning Britain
- Montgomery's fantasy
- Paras
- The seafarers
- The eve
- Operation Tonga
- Merville
- Grappling the Atlantic wall
- The breach
- Green Berets
- Gale's force
- "They were advancing very slowly"
- In the beachhead
- The end of the road to Caen
- Nightfall
- Some afterlives . . . and death
- Appendix: Order of the British forces which landed on Sword Beach and in the Orne perimeter on 6 June 1944.
- Notes:
- First published in Great Britain in 2025 by HarperCollins Publishers.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-356) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781324117575
- 1324117575
- OCLC:
- 1490365929
- Publisher Number:
- 90102457847
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