Landing on the edge of eternity: twenty-four hours at Omaha Beach
(Book)
Early in 1944, German commander Field Marshal Erwin Rommel took a look at the sloping sands and announced "They will come here!" He was referring to "Omaha Beach". The beach was then transformed into three miles of lethal, bunker-protected arcs of fire, with seaside chalets converted into concrete strongpoints, with layers of barbed wire and mines. When Company A of the US 116th Regiment landed on Omaha Beach in D-Day's first wave on 6th June 1944, it lost 96% of its effective strength. This was the beginning of the historic day that Landing on the Edge of Eternity narrates hour by hour--midnight to midnight--tracking German and American soldiers fighting across the beachhead. The Wehrmacht thought they had bludgeoned the Americans into submission yet by mid-afternoon, the American troops were ashore. Why were the casualties so grim, and how could the Germans have failed? Juxtaposing the American experience--pinned down, swamped by a rising tide, facing young Wehrmacht soldiers fighting desperately for their lives, Kershaw draws on eyewitness accounts, memories, letters, and post-combat reports to expose the true horrors of Omaha Beach. Landing on the Edge of Eternity is a dramatic historical ride through an amphibious landing that looked as though it might never succeed.
Notes
Kershaw, R. (2020). Landing on the edge of eternity: twenty-four hours at Omaha Beach. New York, NY, Pegasus Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Kershaw, Robert, 1950-. 2020. Landing On the Edge of Eternity: Twenty-four Hours At Omaha Beach. New York, NY, Pegasus Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Kershaw, Robert, 1950-, Landing On the Edge of Eternity: Twenty-four Hours At Omaha Beach. New York, NY, Pegasus Books, 2020.
MLA Citation (style guide)Kershaw, Robert. Landing On the Edge of Eternity: Twenty-four Hours At Omaha Beach. New York, NY, Pegasus Books, 2020.
Record Information
Last Sierra Extract Time | Apr 11, 2024 07:59:44 PM |
---|---|
Last File Modification Time | Apr 11, 2024 08:00:14 PM |
Last Grouped Work Modification Time | Apr 20, 2024 06:29:15 PM |
MARC Record
LEADER | 03538cam a2200553Ii 4500 | ||
---|---|---|---|
001 | 1104402732 | ||
003 | OCoLC | ||
005 | 20210814094058.0 | ||
008 | 190614t20202018xx abf 000 0 eng d | ||
020 | |a 1643133500 | ||
020 | |a 9781643133508 | ||
035 | |a (OCoLC)1104402732 | ||
040 | |a YDX|b eng|c YDX|d BDX|d OCLCQ|d AHH|d OCL|d FTU|d HFU | ||
049 | |a HFUA | ||
050 | |a D756.5.N6|b K473 2020 | ||
082 | |a 940.54/21421 | ||
092 | |a 940.54|b K41r | ||
100 | 1 | |a Kershaw, Robert,|d 1950-|0 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr91027107|e author. | |
245 | 1 | 0 | |a Landing on the edge of eternity :|b twenty-four hours at Omaha Beach /|c Robert Kershaw. |
264 | 1 | |a New York, NY :|b Pegasus Books,|c [2020] | |
264 | 4 | |c ©2018 | |
300 | |a xl, 376 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates :|b illustrations, maps, plates ;|c 21 cm | ||
336 | |a text|b txt|2 rdacontent | ||
337 | |a unmediated|b n|2 rdamedia | ||
338 | |a volume|b nc|2 rdacarrier | ||
504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
520 | |a Early in 1944, German commander Field Marshal Erwin Rommel took a look at the sloping sands and announced "They will come here!" He was referring to "Omaha Beach". The beach was then transformed into three miles of lethal, bunker-protected arcs of fire, with seaside chalets converted into concrete strongpoints, with layers of barbed wire and mines. When Company A of the US 116th Regiment landed on Omaha Beach in D-Day's first wave on 6th June 1944, it lost 96% of its effective strength. This was the beginning of the historic day that Landing on the Edge of Eternity narrates hour by hour--midnight to midnight--tracking German and American soldiers fighting across the beachhead. The Wehrmacht thought they had bludgeoned the Americans into submission yet by mid-afternoon, the American troops were ashore. Why were the casualties so grim, and how could the Germans have failed? Juxtaposing the American experience--pinned down, swamped by a rising tide, facing young Wehrmacht soldiers fighting desperately for their lives, Kershaw draws on eyewitness accounts, memories, letters, and post-combat reports to expose the true horrors of Omaha Beach. Landing on the Edge of Eternity is a dramatic historical ride through an amphibious landing that looked as though it might never succeed. | ||
647 | 7 | |a World War|d (1939-1945)|2 fast|0 (OCoLC)fst01180924 | |
648 | 7 | |a 1939-1945|2 fast | |
650 | 0 | |a World War, 1939-1945|z France.|0 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148536 | |
650 | 7 | |a Operation Neptune.|2 fast|0 (OCoLC)fst01046343 | |
650 | 7 | |a Weltkrieg|g 1939-1945.|2 fast | |
650 | 0 | 7 | |a Geschichte 1944.|2 fast |
650 | 0 | |a World War, 1939-1945|x Amphibious operations.|0 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148279 | |
650 | 0 | |a Operation Neptune.|0 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85095003 | |
651 | 0 | |a Normandy (France)|x History.|0 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85092425 | |
651 | 7 | |a France|z Normandy.|2 fast|0 (OCoLC)fst01210709 | |
651 | 7 | |a France.|2 fast|0 (OCoLC)fst01204289 | |
651 | 7 | |a Omaha Beach (1944).|2 fast | |
655 | 7 | |a History.|2 fast|0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 | |
907 | |a .b64416574 | ||
948 | |a MARCIVE Comprehensive, in 2023.02 | ||
948 | |a MARCIVE Over, 09/2021 | ||
989 | |1 .i139767265|b 1130003966532|d pc|g -|m |h 0|x 0|t 0|i 0|j 2|k 210814|o -|a 940.54|r K41r | ||
994 | |a C0|b HFU | ||
995 | |a Loaded with m2btab.ltiac in 2023.02 | ||
995 | |a Loaded with m2btab.ltiac in 2021.09 | ||
995 | |a Loaded with m2btab.b in 2021.08 | ||
998 | |e -|f eng|a pc |