Signed first edition PEGASUS BRIDGE STEPHEN AMBROSE JOHN HOWARD autograph. RARE SIGNED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. NOTE: ACTUAL BOOK IS SIGNED – NOT A BOOKPLATE! BOOK IS SIGNED BY AUTHOR AMBROSE AND MAJOR JOHN HOWARD. Ambrose – Signed by author. Printed in 1985 – Stated First Edition. 197 Pages – Hardcover (9 inches / 23 cm tall). Very collectible copy of this book for the advanced collector. Signatures of both the author and Major Howard. CONDITION: Very good, light storage wear to cover. Dust jacket is not price clipped. Major Reginald John Howard DSO (1912 -1999) was a British Army officer who led a glider-borne assault that captured the Caen canal and Orne river bridges on 6 June 1944, as part of the D-Day landings during the Second World War. These bridges spanned the Caen Canal and the adjacent River Orne (about 500 yards to the east), and were vitally important to the success of the D-Day landings. Since the war the bridge over the canal has become known as “Pegasus Bridge”, as a tribute to the men who captured it. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He was a longtime professor of history at the University of New Orleans and the author of many bestselling volumes of American popular history. Ambrose’s work for the Eisenhower Center, specifically his work with D-Day veterans, inspired him to co-found the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans with another historian and UNO professor Gordon H. Listing and template services provided by inkFrog. This item is in the category “Books & Magazines\Antiquarian & Collectible”. The seller is “aviationbug” and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States.
- Topic: WWII (1939-45)
- Binding: Hardcover
- Special Attributes: Inscribed, Dust Jacket, 1st Edition
- Signed: Yes
- Year Printed: 1985
