Pegasus Bridge

On the night of June 6, 1944, a small British airborne force drops behind enemy lines with one mission: seize the Caen Canal bridge and hold it until the main invasion force arrives. Stephen E. Ambrose's meticulously researched account follows the men of D Company, 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, as they fight through the dark, contested the bridge, and held it against German counterattacks in the opening hours of the Normandy campaign. Told with the precision of a military historian, the book captures the tension, camaraderie, and sheer audacity of the operation that became known as Pegasus Bridge.