The strengths, weaknesses and sheer drama of airborne warfare are all encapsulated in 6th Airborne Division's attacks on Pegasus Bridge and the Merville Battery in Normandy. The lightly armed but highly trained and motivated airborne troops sought to overcome a more heavily armed enemy desperate to [...]

A noted military historian furnishes a gripping, in-depth account of the Allies' bloody assault on Anzio, in western Italy, during World War II, describing the long, difficult, and fierce campaign that eventually led to the successful capture of Rome and evaluating the costly mistakes that cost thou[...]