A Rising of Courage: Canada's Paratroops in the Liberation of Normandy

The author, a member of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, dropped into France minutes before the D-Day invasion, June 6th, 1944. His story covers the kind of young men who were parachuted into Normandy that night to objectives against desperate odds and deadlines-and how they succeeded. Hartigan deals with a topic seldom discussed previously, how some men were scattered up to 30 miles from their objectives. Was it the wind,weather, ack-ack fire, pilot error-or was it on purpose to dupe the enemy? The author tells his story.