num_pages: 256
description: 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.
language: English
title: Pegasus Bridge : D-Day - The Daring British Airborne Raid
titlecomplete: Pegasus Bridge : D-Day - The Daring British Airborne Raid
genres: Historical, France, War, Science, Nonfiction, Military History, The World, Military Fiction, History, World War II
ratings_count: 9991
publisher: Pocket Books