D-Day 1944 (3): Sword Beach & the British Airborne Landings (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781841763668)

The third title in Osprey's survey of the D-Day landings of World War II (1939-1945). At 0016hrs on 6 June 1944 a Horsa glider ground to a halt a mere 60 yards from the Orne Canal bridge at B nouville 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.

Author: Ken Ford
ISBN-10: 1841763667
ISBN-13: 9781841763668
Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
Language: English
Published: 07/25/2002
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 9.74h x 7.26w x 0.34d