On May 10, 1940, SS Sturmbannf hrer Gunther Dettmer stands on the border of Germany and France.
Re-edited, second edition (September 2019)..
Four years later, General Jumpin\' Jim Gavin will descend through the night sky and into Normandy, France, along with the greatest invasion force the world has ever seen.
These and others are the Heroes of Sainte-M re- glise.
Army\'s first parachute platoon.
They hope to make it through the treacherous Pyrenees Mountains before the Nazis capture them.
Working with the French Resistance, Gabrielle Hall uses her beauty and cunning to obtain military intelligence from the Nazi officers who frequent her caf .
In Fort Benning, Georgia, Captain James Gavin discusses a plan with Major William Lee to begin the U.
S.
Events will soon force him to become a man, and along with his father, brother, and a small group of citizens, they harass their German occupiers and help the Allies prepare for the D-Day invasion.
Guilty of nothing other than being a Jew, Jean-Pierre\'s best friend, Alfred Shapiro, flees to Spain with his family.
He attends school, helps his father in the fields, and tries not to be nervous around the mesmerizing Angelique Lapierre.
His youngest son, Jean-Pierre, lives the life of a typical thirteen-year-old.
Most of all, he has tried to forget the horrors he inflicted on others as the deadliest assassin the French Army has ever known, unaware he will soon need the skills of war he once used to perfection.
Since the end of the last war, he has tried to forget the atrocities he\'d witnessed.
He is enjoying the life he has made with his wife and two sons in the peaceful village of Sainte-M re- glise.
Six hundred kilometers away, WWI veteran Ren Legrand plows his fields.
He waits with the German war machine for the order from Adolf Hitler to start the western Blitzkrieg-the lightning war.
On May 10, 1940, SS Sturmbannf hrer Gunther Dettmer stands on the border of Germany and France
