D-Day 1944 (3)
Subtitle: Sword Beach & British Airborne Landings
Contributors: Howard Gerrard (Illustrator)
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Published: July 25, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781841763668
Subjects: British & Irish history: Second World War; European history: Second World War; War & defence operations; Second World War, 1939-1945; Military; History; History - Military / War; British Isles; Europe; Military - World War II; History / Military / World War II
First sentence: The landings on Sword Beach and the battles fought by British paratroopers in the area around the estuary of the River Orne were just a small part of the great Allied liberation of Normandy that began on 6 June 1944.