I posted recently about my history kick, and part of that kick has involved browsing the history section at Borders and a run to the West Jordan library. Here's one that I found and highly recommend:
Title: Pegasus Bride: June 6, 1944
Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
This book is about a lesser known event that occured as the first victory on D-Day. Major John Howard lead an attack and seizure of two bridges behind enemy lines that proved to be vital for the invasion of Normandy. I join the many who have at least heard of and know about the D-Day invasions at Sword , Omaha, Gold, and Utah Beaches. D-Day is known as the single largest air/sea invasion in the history of the world and put the Allies in a position to move cross continent and push Germany back, eventually closing in on Berlin and taking Hitler's army out of the war.
However, the battle at Pegasus Bridge is a relatively unknow piece of that D-Day invasion. This book does an incredible job setting the scene for the battle, taking the reader through the training of soldiers, explaining the background of many of the key individuals involved, and even minute by minute detail of the actual landing of gliders and capture of the bridges.
I haven't read anything else by Ambrose, but you can bet I've got more of his books on hold at the library. This book was very well written, organized, and detailed. It was a nice 200 pages that moved quickly, never dulled, and captured the moment very well. I don't have any kind of thumbs up, 3 star, 1-10 rating or anything... but I really really enjoyed this book. Another thing about this book that made it nice, although very detailed and descriptive, the vulgarity and gory details that we are very aware of were left out for the benefit of the reader. Clean, concise, captivating, and just an all around great book.
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