01169cam a2200253 4500 388575034 TxAuBib 20101104120000.0 080207s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2008004813 9780345461407 0345461401 9780345461421 $28.00 0345461428 $28.00 WiMaMI TxAuBib Shaara, Jeff, 1952- The steel wave : a novel of World War II / Jeff Shaara. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 2008. xxvi, 493 p. : maps ; 25 cm. 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. World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns France Normandy Fiction. War stories.