The boys of Pointe du Hoc : Ronald Reagan, D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion /
The heavy U.S. and British warships poised in the English Channel had eighteen targets on their bombardment list for D-Day morning. The 100-foot promontory known as Pointe du Hoc--where six big German guns were ensconced--was number one. General Omar Bradley called knocking out the Nazi defenses at...
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New York :
W. Morrow,
[2005]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Setting the stage
- Darby's Rangers
- Rudder's Rangers
- Climbing the cliffs, destroying the guns
- Reagan's Hollywood war
- Peggy Noonan prepares for Pointe du Hoc
- Reagan's Normandy Day
- After the speeches
- Epilogue
- Appendix
- Notes and sources
- Acknowledgments
- Index.