Devil's Own Luck
Pegasus Bridge to the Baltic 1944-45
Published on 1. August 2001
256 pages
978-1-78383-427-3 (ISBN)
Description
Although strictly forbidden to keep diaries, Denis Edwards managed to record his experiences throughout nearly all his time in Europe in 1944-45. He brilliantly conveys what it was like to be facing death, day after day, night after night, with never a bed to sleep in nor a hot meal to go home to. This is warfare in the raw ' brutal, yet humorous, immensely tragic, but sadly, all true.
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Devil's Own Luck: Pegasus Bridge to the Baltic 1944-45
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Content
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Part 1 The Hand of Destiny
- Chapter 1 Early Days
- Chapter 2 Training
- Chapter 3 Into the Fray
- Part 2 A Normandy Diary
- Chapter 4 The Longest Day
- Chapter 5 Hérouvillette and Escoville
- Chapter 6 The Château St Come and Bréville
- Chapter 7 Mostly Hellfire Corner
- Chapter 8 The Advance to the Seine
- Part 3 Belgium and Germany
- Chapter 9 The Ardennes
- Chapter 10 Across the Rhine
- Endnote
- Appendix 1 Bob Ambrose's account of captivity following his capture outside Escoville on June 7th 1944
- Appendix 2 The load and crews of the six gliders in the 'Coup de main' force, 5 June, 1944
- Appendix 3 Harry Clarke's story of the landing at Hamminkeln railway station
- Appendix 4 Some speculation about the Author's observations at the Château St. Come
- Notes
- Index
