Simon Forty, Jonathan Forty

Broschiertes Buch

A Photographic History of Airborne Warfare, 1939-1945

Beschreibung

On 10 May 1940 German Fallschirmjäger stormed the Dutch fort of Eben-Emael, south of Maastricht. The brilliantly executed operation was the first signal success by airborne troops in the Second World War and it made the military world sit up and take notice.

Autor

Simon Forty was educated in Dorset and the north of England before reading history at London University's School of Slavonic and East European Studies. He has been involved in publishing since the mid-1970s, first as editor and latterly as author. Son of author and RAC Tank Museum curator George Forty, he has continued in the family tradition writing mainly on historical and military subjects including books on the Napoleonic Wars and the two world wars. Recently he has produced a range of highly illustrated books on the Normandy battlefields, the Atlantic Wall and the liberation of the Low Countries with co-author Leo Marriott.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pen & Sword Books
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781399020756
• ISBN-10: 1399020757
• Artikelnr.: 71594516