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D-Day 1944 (3): Sword Beach and the British Airborne Landings

D-Day 1944 (3): Sword Beach and the British Airborne Landings

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Description: The third title in Osprey's survey of the D-Day landings of World War II (1939-1945). At 0016 hrs on 6 June 1944 a Horsa glider ground to a halt a mere 60 yards from the Orne Canal bridge at Benouville in Normandy. A small group of British paratroopers burst from it and stormed the bridge within minutes. The Allied liberation of Nazi-occupied Europe had begun. Within a few hours landing craft would swarm towards Ouistreham as British 3rd Division stormed ashore at Sword Beach. The battle would then begin to break through to relieve the paratroopers. In the third of the D-Day volumes Ken Ford details the assault by British 6th Airborne Division and the British landings on Sword Beach that secured the vital left flank of the invasion.
MSRP: 19.95
Book Series: Campaign
Volume: 105
Subject: Military History
Author: Ken Ford
About the Author: Ken Ford was born in Hampshire in 1943. He trained as an engineer and spent almost thirty years in the telecommunications industry. He now spENDs his time as an author and a bookseller specialising in military history. He has written a number of books on various Second World War subjects. Ken now lives in Southampton.
ISBN-13: 9781841763668
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Publication Date: 7/25/02
Number of Pages: 96
Binding: Paperback
Illustrator: Howard Gerrard
UPC: 9781841763668
Set: Osprey Books
Rarity: sealed
The third title in Osprey's survey of the D-Day landings of World War II (1939-1945). At 0016 hrs on 6 June 1944 a Horsa glider ground to a halt a mere 60 yards from the Orne Canal bridge at Benouville in Normandy. A small group of British paratroopers burst from it and stormed the bridge within minutes. The Allied liberation of Nazi-occupied Europe had begun. Within a few hours landing craft would swarm towards Ouistreham as British 3rd Division stormed ashore at Sword Beach. The battle would then begin to break through to relieve the paratroopers. In the third of the D-Day volumes Ken Ford details the assault by British 6th Airborne Division and the British landings on Sword Beach that secured the vital left flank of the invasion.
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