11/08/2026
Neil Barbers, latest 6th Airborne account of the attacks on the River Dives.
While the capture of Pegasus Bridge and the assault on the Merville Battery have become justly famous, they were only a part of a far wider, carefully coordinated plan. A third primary objective entailed the destruction of bridges across the River Dives, in a desperate effort to delay and disrupt German counterattacks from the east. With the scattered drops, the well-practised individual plans for each of the five bridged were no longer possible. The subsequent attacks therefore had to rely purely on initiative, improvisation and extraordinary courage.
In Red Devils on D-Day, Neil Barber draws on decades of research, battlefield study, rare firsthand accounts from the men who were there. He reconstructs with clarity and authority, the chaos and intensity of those crucial hours, revealing the full scope of the airborne operation and the essential role played not only by paratroopers, but engineers and supporting units.
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