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'The tide had crept up behind Nance, drowning Company A men who no longer had the strength to crawl. Nance had trained them. He had tried to be good to them. He had read their last love letters. As he now lay on the blood-stained pebbles below Vierville sur Mer, drifting in and out of consciousness, he still felt responsible for them, every last one. I was their officer. It was my duty ...They were the finest soldiers I ever saw. I loved those men. ' The memorable opening scene of SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, which portrayed the appalling scenario on Omaha Beach, where allied bombs had failed to knock out German gun emplacements or do any damage whatsoever to beach defences was loosely based on Bedford's story. The first wave of seasick young GIs were being tipped out into the tide to be picked off by waiting machine gun fire and shelling, acting more as target practice than a tangible threat. Bodies and dissected limbs of the fallen lined the watermark like flotsam. Incredible bravery and luck did in some instances prevail, and with the help of a more successful bombing campaign later in the day, Omaha was finally taken. Company A was in that first wave of landings - known, jokingly as 'the suicide wave' by soldiers before the attack. Many of Bedford's young recruits to the US Army found themselves training and fighting together in Company A of the 116th Regiment of the 29th Division - a company which was all but obliterated by the end of the Longest Day. From small town lives - wives, fiancees and childhoods - to training in the UK and those fateful D-Day landings and on to the aftermath, Alex Kershaw creates a vivid and haunting portrait of one town's loss.

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Simon & Schuster
ISBN-13
9780743477918
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Book Title
The Bedford Boys: One Small Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice
Author
Alex Kershaw
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
History
Publication Year
2004
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Textbook
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
320 Pages

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200mm

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Alex Kershaw
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United States

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5 out of 5 stars
by dave.t0_024 Apr, 2019
Very moving. Couldn't put it down
The book covers the background of the boys & families & why they joined the local National Guard. It covers the training, the landing & the impact of their return to Bedford after the war. It is very well written & researched.
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by robspencer201023 Jun, 2021
A true story
I have just started reading the book so far it's very good
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by sew2avon23 May, 2019
the bedford boys
the product took a long time to arrive and some pages were loose inside the book.
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by roberjacob-9304 Jun, 2020
Bedford boys
Very interesting book will be reading it again
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by alistairh195905 Jan, 2017
Very sad loss of life.
A really interesting book about the sacrifice that these young men made on 6th June 1944. Read it!
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