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xxii, 425 pages : 22 cm Story of the men of the 82d and 101st airborne divisions who parachuted by night into Normandy, and fought for the success of D-Day Includes index commitment to retain 20151204 Against the merderet -- Into the marshes -- Soft fall amid tension -- Turnbull's platoon -- The affair on Hill 30 -- The milling crowd -- Levy and patrol -- Done the hard way -- No better spot to die -- Kickback at Hill 20 -- One pack of strays -- Fate's long hand -- Through the ford -- Hill 30 and Millsaps' patrol -- Charge of a causeway -- Struggle for mobility -- Building the bridgehead -- Misery and grandeur -- Crossing the Douve -- Pat Cassidy and outfit -- Roses all the way -- Summers at WXYZ -- Road blocks at Foucarville -- The man and the lock -- At Les Droueries -- Call on "Poopville" -- Other screaming eagles -- Westward Ho! -- Comes the artillery -- Call it hell's corners -- The Snafu engagement -- Reconnaissance -- Approach -- Long, long night -- Charge -- Life on the farm -- Support -- The cabbage patch -- Rout -- Crisis

Author

With a pref. by Carl Sandburg. Illustrated by H. Garver Miller

Publisher

Boston: Little, Brown

Published

1962

Language

EN

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

3.89 / 5 (32 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14