By Tim Lynch
On 10 could 1940 battle replaced endlessly whilst gliders swooped all the way down to grab the castle of Eben Emael in Belgium prior to the German improve. within the following 5 years of warfare, the glider advanced right into a war-winning weapon in a position to touchdown males, weapons or even tanks with pinpoint precision. the world over it grew to become an important point in army making plans, but no complete historical past of glider operations has been written. Tim Lynch, during this photo and hugely readable research, provides vibrant money owed of glider operations - a few recognized, a few much less popular - in each theater of the warfare, in northern Europe, the Mediterranean, the a long way East and the Pacific. He prices largely from the memoirs and eyewitness debts of the glider pilots and the troops they carried, and he strains the evolution glider strategies over the process the conflict.
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