Pegasus Bridge: Bénouville D-Day 1944

First published in Great Britain in 2010 by Osprey Publishing,

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Index by Alan Thatcher

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DEDICATION

To the soldiers of The Rifles killed on operations in Iraq and Afghanistan – Swift and Bold.