01469cam a2200301 i 4500 369069162 TxAuBib 20190126120000.0 091110s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780345461391 pbk. 0345461398 pbk. TxAuBib rda Shaara, Jeff. The steel wave [BOOK] : a novel of World War II / Jeff Shaara. Ballantine Books Premium Mass Market Edition. New York : Ballantine Books, 2009. xxv, 533 p. : maps ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Contains an excerpt from Jeff Shaara's next book, No Less Than Victory. To the reader -- List of maps -- Research sources -- Introduction -- Part one -- Part two -- Part three -- Part four -- Afterword. A fictional account of D-Day and the Allied invasion of Europe chronicles the events of the World War II campaign and the personalities who took part, from the ordinary soldiers on the land and in the air, to such leaders as Dwight Eisenhower, George Patton, and Omar Bradley, as their efforts changed the course of the war. 20190126. cat samp 20120301 jth/cjk. World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns France Normandy Fiction. War stories, American.