I was lucky enough to finish this book just before my trip to Dallas, so had a fresh book to start the trip

The book is “The Day the Devils Dropped In” by Neil Barber. This was a book recommended to me by our tour guide while in Normandy in 2011 (yes it has taken me this long to read it, judge me later). This follows the lead up to and the first few days (well 6 days) of the Normandy campaign for the 9th Parachute Battalion of the British Army.

On D-Day the biggest mission for the 9th Para was the attack on the Merville Battery and after visiting the site back in 2011, I really did want to read up a bit more on it as it was this crazy attempt at attacking a heavily fortified position, but that did not go according to plan at all, yet they still managed to pull it off.

It is a good book and interesting to read on Normandy airborne campaign from a Non US perspective (as the US did kind of dominate this campaign). What I learned from it though was how different the British armed forces are compared to the US Armed forces. With talks of “assistants” and “batman” etc it is very different to what you would expect to see, or even read about and compared to other countries.

A pretty good read, mind you it is not at all that long (190 pages) and I managed to finish it off in less than a week.