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Combat Jump: The Young Men Who Led the Assault into Fortress Europe, July 1943

Name: Combat Jump: The Young Men Who Led the Assault into Fortress Europe, July 1943
Author: Ed Ruggero
ISBN: 9780060088767

Ed Ruggero

400 pages

Harper

Oct 2003

Hardcover

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Follows the paratrooper invasion of Sicily in 1943 that set the groundwork for the Fortress Europe attack, citing the challenges that were presented to Dwight Eisenhower's troops and the consequences had they failed.

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