D-day 1944 (3): Sword Beach & The British Airborne landings

The third title in Osprey's survey of the D-Day landings of World War II
(1939-1945). At 0016hrs on 6 June 1944 a Horsa glider ground to a halt a
mere 60 yards from the Orne Canal bridge at Bénouville in Normandy. A
small group of British paratroopers burst from it and stormed the bridge
within minutes. The Allied liberation of Nazi-occupied Europe had
begun. Within a few hours landing craft would swarm towards Ouistreham
as British 3rd Division stormed ashore at Sword Beach. The battle would
then begin to break through to relieve the paratroopers. In the third of
the D-Day volumes Ken Ford details the assault by British 6th Airborne
Division and the British landings on Sword Beach that secured the vital
left flank of the invasion.