Nothing but Courage
The 82nd Airborne's Daring D-Day Mission--and Their Heroic Charge Across the La Fière Bridge
From the bestselling author of Shoot for the Moon and A Terrible Glory comes the dramatic story of the courageous paratroopers and glidermen of the 82nd Airborne, who risked their lives to seize and secure a small, centuries-old bridge in France that played a pivotal role in the success of D-Day.
In June 1944, German and American forces converged on an insignificant bridge a few miles inland from the invasion beaches. If taken by the Nazis, the bridge might have gone down in history as the reason the Allies failed on D-Day.
The narrow road over it was each side’s conduit to victory. Continued Nazi control over the bridge near an old manoir known as La Fière—one of only two bridges in the…
James Donovan is the author of Shoot for the Moon, A Terrible Glory, The Blood of Heroes, and several other books. Nothing but Courage is his stirring saga of American heroism, sacrifice, and triumph during one of the greatest—and lesser known—stories of World War II. James has been a literary agent since 1993 and lives in Dallas.
