Thoroughly enjoyed the series, i had already read the book by stephen ambrose. And i thought it was an amazing story, like all of ambroses books on ww2, it was based on first hand accounts of the people who took part in the operations and various battles. Although my favourite book of his is about pegasus bridge, and how it was captured by the ox and buck infantry on the early hours of d day. Its a fantastic insight to the actions of one company of the british army during the early stages of d day, and the skill of the glider pilots to put those guys onto the target so precisely. Even in modern warfare a special forces unit would find it hard to get to a guarded bridge, hats off to those guys who done it in 1944 with rudimentary equipment and sheer determination.
