- Publisher: Amberley
- Year: 2022
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 256pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 197x128mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.2kg
- ISBN: 9781398112438
- Product code: 541352
D-Day
The British Beach Landings
John Sadler New Paperback Illustrated
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Drawing extensively on eyewitness accounts and contemporary sources, John Sadler details the British role in the D-Day landings, during which they secured Sword, Juno and Gold Beaches. Starting from the initial aerial assault, the personal recollections give a vivid sense of the hellish chaos and the intense difficulty of simply getting a foothold on the continent.
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D-Day, the Allied invasion of Europe, began on the night of 5-6 June 1944. At 07.00 hours on the 6th, Britain's First Corps and XXX Corps came ashore on Sword and Gold beaches, to withering fire from the entrenched German forces. Within the initial and critical couple of hours some 30,000 soldiers, 300 guns and 700 armoured vehicles were landed, a magnificent achievement and, though the sands were soon choked with the mother of all logjams, exacerbated by a swelling tide, the British were firmly lodged; a bridgehead had been secured, albeit a rather flimsy one at this juncture.
This is the story of the British soldiers' experience of the beach landings on that fateful morning - the spearhead of Operation Overlord.
This is the story of the British soldiers' experience of the beach landings on that fateful morning - the spearhead of Operation Overlord.
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Drawing extensively on eyewitness accounts and contemporary sources, John Sadler details the British role in the D-Day landings, during which they secured Sword, Juno and Gold Beaches. Starting from the initial aerial assault, the personal recollections give a vivid sense of the hellish chaos and the intense difficulty of simply getting a foothold on the continent.
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