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The Manner of Men - 9 PARA's Heroic D-Day Mission (Paperback)
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The Manner of Men - 9 PARA's Heroic D-Day Mission (Paperback)
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Loot Price R355
Discovery Miles 3 550
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In June 1944, an elite unit of British paratroopers was sent on a
daring and highly risky behind-the-lines mission, which was deemed
vital to the success of D-Day. Dropping ahead of the main Allied
invasion, 9 PARA were tasked with destroying an impregnable German
gun battery. If they failed, thousands of British troops landing on
the beaches were expected to die. But their mission was flawed and
started to go wrong from the moment they jumped from their aircraft
above Normandy. Only twenty per cent of the unit made it to the
objective and half of them were killed or wounded during the
attack. Undermanned and lacking equipment and ammunition, the
survivors then held a critical part of the invasion beachhead. For
six bloody days, they defended the Breville Ridge against vastly
superior German forces and bore the brunt of Rommel's attempt to
turn the left flank of the Allied invasion. The Manner of Men is an
epic account of courage beyond the limits of human endurance, where
paratroopers prevailed despite intelligence failures and higher
command blunders, in what has been described as one of the most
remarkable feat of arms of the British Army and the Parachute
Regiment during the Second World War.
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