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    [year] => 2018
    [artist] => Robert Kershaw
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    [titleId] => 13357839
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    [language] => ENGLISH
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    [title] => Landing on the Edge of Eternity
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    [pages] => 400
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    [synopsis] => 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.
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    [publisher] => Pegasus Books
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