What more can I say, Howard was a great personality, a simple man and a great soldier, the book I reviewed is a must for anyone who wants to know the man who was behind the successful capture of Pegasus Bridge and the bridge over the Orne.

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On the Old Barbed Wire

An excellent look into the training and planning for the Pegasus Bridge assault during D-Day. Also a good look at life in wartime Britain.

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The name of Major John Howard is synonymous with the assault on Pegasus Bridge during the first minutes of the D-Day landings, and while many books have attempted to describe this most famous of actions, there can surely be no substitute for the words of the man who trained, planned and led the attack. The Pegasus Diaries is an extremely detailed and personal memoir of a man who was commissioned from the ranks into the 2nd Battalion The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, and it follows his career from taking command of "D" Company in 1942 to the end of the war, including the intense training leading up to D-Day and his account of all that took place on the 6th June 1944. It continues to describe his part in the remainder of the Normandy campaign, and also the tragic end to his career when he was badly injured in a road accident and, despite his best efforts to recover and return to the Airborne, ultimately invalided out of the Army.

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