{"product_id":"a-guide-to-maisy-battery-9781526776709","title":"A Guide to Maisy Battery","description":"The US Army Rangers orders were clear - they were to attack the gun batteries at Maisy and silence them on D-Day - before nightfall.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Rangers did not get to Maisy until the morning of the 9th of June - where they found the guns still firing and the Germans ready and waiting for them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt 9am the commanders ordered their men to attack without any intelligence brief.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach company of Rangers captured a different area of the 144 acre site and some walked through marshes, uphill and through minefields - all whilst under fire - to then have a face to face battle in the trenches.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAccounts of the battle come from the author's interviews with the men who took part. Distinguished Service Cross's, Silver Stars and Purple Hearts had been earned by the time the 5 1\/2 hour battle ended.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author shares his unique experience of digging up this previously unrecognized WW2 battlefield and he walks the reader through trench after trench and bunker by bunker.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe reveals what he was found in a site that one Ranger veteran described as a \"town underground\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaisy Battery is unique in Normandy today and the authors detective work and subsequent onsite archaeology has been featured on the front page of the Washington Post.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is a battlefield where you are free to walk around miles of original trenches and only then can you understand the bravery of the men who fought for every inch of it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pen \u0026amp; Sword Military\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/31\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781526776709\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304","brand":"Gary Sterne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42021923455157,"sku":"9781526776709","price":22.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_4f8776f0-447f-4a39-afed-7a6069523f03.jpg?v=1649301145","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-guide-to-maisy-battery-9781526776709","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}