Eight Seconds: A Dramatised Account of 'Operation Tonga': The 6th Airborne Assault on the Merville Gun Battery 6 June 1944

by Glenn B. Fleming, Helen D. Fleming (Illustrator)

For almost four years Europe had suffered under German occupation; the nations of the world had been drawn into a global conflict for the second time in barely 20 years.On 6 June 1944, the Allies put over 150,000 troops onto the beaches of Normandy, France in the first 24 hours of D-Day, the largest amphibious assault in history.Their ultimate mission: to bring to an end to the Nazi tyranny.In the early morning hours before the main landings, members of the British 6th Airborne Division were dropped into German occupied Normandy to disable an artillery battery located at Merville, several miles inland from the beaches.The German artillery would threaten British and Canadian troops as they put ashore. The battery had to be disabled at all cost.Based on actual events and anecdotes from his father, author/artist Glenn B Fleminghas produced this unique, illustrated, dramatised story of one man’s experience as part of that assault.

168 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2019