A Rising of Courage Canada’s Paratroops in the Liberation of Normandy

 

The author, a member of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, dropped into France minutes before the D-Day invasion, June 6th, 1944. His story covers the kind of young men who were parachuted into Normandy that night to objectives against desperate odds and deadlines – and how they succeeded. Hartigan deals with a topic seldom discussed previously, how some men were scattered up to 30 miles from their objectives. Was it the wind, weather, ack-ack fire, pilot error – or was it on purpose to dupe the enemy? The author tells his story.

 

Dan Hartigan

Softcover 271pp Drop Zone Publishers 2000 1st Ed

 

Fine

Book Code:  SH2229