“There is just something endlessly fascinating about true war stories. You don't have to be an adolescent middle-class male to be intrigued by sudden and almost random death. A surreal situation where the lives of young people can be put to an immediate stop at any given moment by any cruel means. This book is a tale of a group of young men who actually were in that situation and, for the most part, lived to tell about it.
In short: historical account of the British glider assault on a key position in the German infrastructure near Caen, France on D-day.
For those who have read and enjoyed the book: the mission to capture and hold Pegasus Bridge features in the computer game Call of Duty and the movie The Longest Day.”
Broccoli wrote this review Tuesday, October 31, 2006.
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