Air War D-Day Volume 1: The Build Up, 9781781591192
Hardcover
D-Day’s aerial prelude: Unveiling the meticulous build-up to history’s longest day.

Air War D-Day Volume 1: The Build Up

The Build Up

$71.99

  • Hardcover

    186 pages

  • Release Date

    1 April 2013

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Summary

This is the first volume of a most impressive tribute and comprehensive five-part work that includes a multitude of personal military and civilian accounts of every aspect of air, land, paratroop, and seaborne operations on D-Day, 6th June.

At fifteen minutes after midnight on 6 June 1944, ‘Operation Overlord’, the Allied invasion of Hitler’s Festung Europe, became reality. Almost exactly four years earlier, the British Expeditionary Force had been forced to retreat to Dunkirk in the …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781781591192
ISBN-10:1781591199
Author:Martin Bowman
Publisher:Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Imprint:Pen & Sword Aviation
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:186
Release Date:1 April 2013
Weight:520g
Dimensions:234mm x 156mm
Series:Air War D-Day
About The Author

Martin Bowman

Martin Bowman is one of Britain’s leading aviation authors and has written a multitude of books on World War Two and other conflicts since. Among the many titles that he has written, Pen and Sword have published The Men Who Flew The Mosquito, Duxford and the Big Wings; several guides to World War Two airfields in the ‘Aviation Heritage Series’, Bomber Command: Reflections of War and Air War D-Day; The First Steps To Victory.

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