D-Day 1944 (3)

Sword Beach & the British Airborne Landings

Ken Ford, Howard Gerrard

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English

Osprey
25 July 2002

History; British & Irish history; Second World War; War & defence operations

Series: Campaign

A highly illustrated and detailed study of the Sword Beach & the British Airborne Landings.

At 0016hrs on 6 June 1944 a Horsa glider ground to a halt a mere 60 yards from the Orne Canal bridge at Bénouville 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.

By: Ken Ford
Illustrated by: Howard Gerrard
Imprint: Osprey
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: No.105
Dimensions: Height: 248mm, Width: 184mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 325g
ISBN: 9781841763668
ISBN 10: 1841763667
Series: Campaign
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 25 July 2002
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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. Howard Gerrard has been a freelance designer and illustrator for over 20 years. He has worked for a number of publishers, and is an associate member of the Guild of Aviation Artists.