In the months leading up to the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944, Field Marshall Erwin Rommel, the infamous Desert Fox, was placed in charge of Nazi Germany’s defence of Northwest Europe – the so-called Atlantic Wall. Rommel, a man of swift and decisive action, immediately saw the dangers of a cross-channel invasion and holes in the German defense.
As the Allies assembled their forces for the greatest amphibious operation in history, Rommel ordered a massive strengthening of the Atlantic Wall. A new network of concrete fortifications, artillery, mortars, machine guns, barbed-wire, beach obstacles and tens of millions of mines were laid. Rommel understood the immense power that was gathering across the English Channel. He fervently believed that the Allies could only be repulsed during the initial stages of any seaborne invasion. Once the Allies were ashore in strength the Germans would surely be defeated. For Erwin Rommel, the Allied invasion of Northwest Europe and the final outcome of the war would be decided at the water’s edge.
At the Water's Edge is a WWII historical drama for stage and radio that follows the lives of two ordinary Allied servicemen, one British and the other American, in the months leading up to and including the D-Day landings of June 6 1944. The play has been thoroughly researched and checked for historical accuracy.
As the Allies assembled their forces for the greatest amphibious operation in history, Rommel ordered a massive strengthening of the Atlantic Wall. A new network of concrete fortifications, artillery, mortars, machine guns, barbed-wire, beach obstacles and tens of millions of mines were laid. Rommel understood the immense power that was gathering across the English Channel. He fervently believed that the Allies could only be repulsed during the initial stages of any seaborne invasion. Once the Allies were ashore in strength the Germans would surely be defeated. For Erwin Rommel, the Allied invasion of Northwest Europe and the final outcome of the war would be decided at the water’s edge.
At the Water's Edge is a WWII historical drama for stage and radio that follows the lives of two ordinary Allied servicemen, one British and the other American, in the months leading up to and including the D-Day landings of June 6 1944. The play has been thoroughly researched and checked for historical accuracy.
