Airborne Operations

an illustrated encyclopedia of the great battles of airborne forces

Plot

Indhold: Technical section; Historical Section; Denmark and Norway; Eben Emael and Holland; Operation Mercury - the invasion of Crete; Paratroops at Cassino; Defeat in the West: The Last Paratroop Operations; Tunesia 1943; The Airborne Assault on Sicily; The Airborne Assault on France; Operation MARKET-GARDEN; The Defence of Bastogne; The Rhine Crossings; The Pacific Theatre; Operation THURSDAY; Eastern Europe; The Korean War; Airborne Operations in French Indo-China; The Suez Crisis; Airborne and Airmobile in Vietnam; The Arab versus Israel; The Rape of Czechoslovakia; The Raids on Entebbe and Mogadishu; Conclusion.