Arnhem : The Battle for the Bridges, 1944

Trade Paperback. 457 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Viking, UK, 2018. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing or wear. Spine is uncreased. . Edges of pages are reasonably browned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: On 17 September 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the growing roar of aero engines. He went out on to his balcony above the flat landscape of southern Holland to watch the vast air armada of Dakotas and gliders,carrying the British 1st Airborne and the American 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions. He gazed up in envy at the greatest demonstration of paratroop power ever seen.Operation Market Garden, the plan to end the war by capturing the bridges leading to the Lower Rhine and beyond, was a bold concept- the Americans thought it unusually bold for Field Marshal Montgomery. But the cost of failure was horrendous, above all for the Dutch who risked everything to help. German reprisals were cruel and lasted until the end of the war.The British fascination for heroic failure has clouded the story of Arnhem in myths, not least that victory was possible when in fact the plan imposed by Montgomery and General 'Boy' Browning was doomed from the start. Antony Beevor, using many overlooked and new sources from Dutch, British, American, Polish and German archives, has reconstructed the terrible reality of this epic clash. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Military & Warfare; ISBN/EAN: 9780241326763. Inventory No: 25070032. Paperback

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ISBN: 0241326761

ISBN-13: 9780241326763

Publisher: Viking

Year: 2018

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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