Landing on the edge of eternity : twenty-four hours at Omaha Beach / Robert Kershaw.
Early in 1944, German commander Field Marshal Erwin Rommel took one look at the gentle, sloping sands of Normandy's Plage d'Or coast and announced "They will come here!" This was "Omaha Beach," the prime American D-Day landing site. The beach was transformed into three...
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New York :
Pegasus Books,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Prologue: 1:00 a.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.