Proposed Airborne Assaults in the Liberation of Europe: Cancelled Allied Plans from the Falaise Pocket to Operation Market Garden by James DalyRequirements: – reader, 3.6 MBOverview: The Falaise-Argentan Pocket battle and planned Allied operations revealed early flaws preceding Operation Market Garden’s failure. The bitter fighting in the so-called Falaise-Argentan Pocket in August 1944, during which […]
Proposed Airborne Assaults during Operation Overlord: Cancelled Allied Plans in Normandy and Brittany by James Daly Requirements: .ePUB reader, 7.4 MbOverview: Using new research and drawing on original planning documents, James Daly explores a little-known aspect of the Allies’ landings in France in the summer of 1944. The airborne landings on D-Day played a major […]
A Photographic History of Airborne Warfare, 1939-1945 by Simon Forty, Jonathan FortyRequirements: .ePUB reader, 35.2 MBOverview: On 10 May 1940, German Fallschirmjäger stormed the Dutch fort of Eben-Emael, south of Maastricht. The brilliantly executed operation was the first signal success by airborne troops in the Second World War and it made the military world sit […]
Sky Warriors: British Airborne Forces in the Second World War by Saul DavidRequirements: .ePUB reader, 6 mbOverview: From bestselling historian Saul David, a riveting new history of the British airborne experience across the Second World War. The legendary ‘Red Devils’ were among the finest combat troops of the Second World War. Created at Churchill’s instigation […]
British Airborne Soldier vs Waffen-SS Soldier: Arnhem 1944 (Combat) by David GreentreeRequirements: .ePUB reader, 18.2 MBOverview: Operation Market Garden was an Allied plan to try and end the war before the end of 1944, and relied on landing airborne troops to secure bridges over the Rhine bridges in the Netherlands. Critical to this plan were […]