Ambrose War: Pegasus Bridge by Stephen E Ambrose, ISBN 9781847397621

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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 and as this gripping account shows was 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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About the Author: Stephen E Ambrose

Stephen Edward Ambrose was born in 1936. He was an American historian and biographer of U.S. Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon. He was a long time professor of history at the University of New Orleans and the author of many best selling volumes of American popular history. Beginning late in his life and continuing after his death, however, controversial reports surfaced suggesting long time patterns of plagiarism, falsification, and inaccuracies in many of his published writings and other work. In response to one of the early reports, Ambrose said he was not "out there stealing other people's writings." His international bestseller Band of Brothers is now a series produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg. Ambrose died in October 2002.

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