Landing on the Edge of Eternity
Twenty-four Hours at Omaha Beach
New York : Pegasus Books, 2018.
Format: Book
Edition: First Pegasus books edition.
Description: xl, 376 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
"Drawn from eyewitness accounts, memories, letters, and post-combat reports, examines the first twenty-four hours of the Allied landing on Omaha Beach." -- (Source of summary not specified)
Contents:
Introduction -- Prologue: 1:00 am.m June 6, 1944 -- The far shore: 1:00 a.m. to 4:30 a.m. -- Force "O": midnight to 3:30 a.m. -- The storm breaks: 2:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. -- Death ride: 4:15 a.m. to 6:30 a.m. -- First wave floundered: 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. -- Pointe du Hoc, "The Jib": 6:40 a.m. to 11:10 a.m. -- Win or lose?: 6:45 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. -- The crisis: 8:30 a.m. to midday -- Village fighting: 11:30 a.m. to dusk -- Tenuous foothold: 4:00 p.m. to midnight -- Beyond 24 hours.
Subjects:
Operation Neptune.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Amphibious operations.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy.
Operation Neptune.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Amphibious operations.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy.
ISBN:
9781681778662
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY War WWII Campaigns D-Day Ker | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-365) and index.