Product details
ISBN
9782815107235
Published
2024-06-15
Publisher
OREP; OREP
Height
240 mm
Width
170 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
36
Author
On the night of the 31st of December 1943, two British commandos successfully collected a few samples of sand and peat under the very nose of the Germans posted at Ver-sur-Mer. Five months later, some 25,000 men followed in their footsteps and landed on the same shores, codenamed Gold Beach. Barely had they landed, before the British troops set out to build an artificial harbour, undoubtedly one of the finest technical feats of the Second World War. It was to prove a major asset for securing Allied supremacy in the months that followed the D-Day Landings.
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On the night of the 31st of December 1943, two British commandos successfully collected a few samples of sand and peat under the very nose of the Germans posted at Ver-sur-Mer. Five months later, some 25,000 men followed in their footsteps and landed on the same shores, codenamed Gold Beach.
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Product details
ISBN
9782815107235
Published
2024-06-15
Publisher
OREP; OREP
Height
240 mm
Width
170 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
36
Author