Pegasus Diaries: The Private Papers of Major John Horward DSO

ISBN-13: 9781844158829 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 208 str.

Penny Bates

Opis

John Howard s name will forever be linked to the highly successful Pegasus Bridge assault by his glider-born company of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. His men regarded him with awe and his courage and toughness were bye-words. However this book reveals the human side of the man as well as providing a graphic account of the preparation, actual operation and aftermath of this iconic raid.The Pegasus Diaries is a book that will be enjoyed by men and women alike, presenting as it does a complex man often torn between his high sense of loyalty to his men and devotion to duty."