by Stephen E. Ambrose · Simon & Schuster · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780743450683
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«Pegasus Bridge» is Stephen E. Ambrose's historical essay on D-Day, published by Simon & Schuster in paperback (256 pages, in English).
It recounts the British airborne raid that opened D-Day: a small detachment stormed the German defenses of Pegasus Bridge in the early hours of June 6, 1944. Ambrose reconstructs the preparations and the hand-to-hand fighting, a decisive mission whose failure would have compromised the invasion of Normandy.
Edition published in 2002; the original work appeared in 1984 under the title Pegasus Bridge: 6 June 1944.
For enthusiasts of 20th-century military history and D-Day operations; it is the work of the author of Band of Brothers.
Stephen Edward Ambrose was an American historian, academic, and author, most noted for his books on World War II and his biographies of U.S. presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He was a longtime professor of history at the University of New Orleans and the author of many bestselling volumes of American popular history.
