Sword Beach (eBook)

D-Day Baptism by Fire

Max Hastings (Autor)

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2025
400 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-1-324-11758-2 (ISBN)

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From the best-selling military historian, a thrilling account of the valiant British role in the D-Day invasion.Between 1941 and 1944, the British army contributed relatively little to World War II. On the unremittingly bloody Eastern Front, no Russian or German soldier had experienced the luxury of having four years to prepare and train for a resumption of the European continental campaign. But on D-DayJune 6, 1944the lives of British soldiers changed. Thiry-five thousand infantrymen, airmen, and special service operatives were sent headfirst into the whitest heat of war, almost overnight.Max Hastingss Sword Beach tells the story of a handful of British soldiers and their critical role in D-Days parachute and seaborne offensive. On Sword, the codename of one of the two beaches assaulted by the British, scores of soldiers were killed by the first shots that they ever heard fired in anger. One British corporal insisted on apologizing to his enemy prisoners, and the Free French troops, 120-men strong, suffered 60 percent losses in the first days of fighting. With his signature blend of drama and detail, Hastings shows how the men who landed on Sword played a critical role in Britains preeminent landmark victory and the most spectacular battlefield event of World War II in the West.Sword Beach fills in many of the missing pieces and human stories that have long been left out of the sweeping macro-stories of the Normandy invasion. Based on published memoirs, interviews with D-Day veterans, and rigorous research, Hastings lends color and shade to the climactic action of the Western Fronts most famous battle. Sword Beach describes the lives of a small number of men, on a single day, who faced the immediate transition from make-believe battle to the wars most violent circumstances.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.11.2025
• Zusatzinfo: 16 pages of illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Schlagworte: boots on the ground • british military history • d day • Military • military biographies • military history • Nazis • soldiers • VE-Day • ve-day anniversary • warfare • Western Front • World War II • ww2 • WW II
• ISBN-10: 1-324-11758-3 / 1324117583
• ISBN-13: 978-1-324-11758-2 / 9781324117582