About the Book: Nothing but Courage: The 82nd Airbornes Daring D-Day
Mission--and Their Heroic Charge Across the La Fière Bridge
From the bestselling author of Shoot for the Moon and A Terrible Glory comes
the dramatic story of the courageous paratroopers and glidermen of the 82nd
Airborne, who risked their lives to seize and secure a small, centuries-old
bridge in France that played a pivotal role in the success of D-Day.
In June 1944, German and American forces converged on an insignificant bridge a
few miles inland from the invasion beaches. If taken by the Nazis, the bridge
might have gone down in