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In the late summer of 1944, SS-Obergruppenführer Wilhelm ‘Willi' Bittrich found himself in the Netherlands surveying his battered troops from II SS Panzer Corps, which was in a poor state after having only narrowly managed to escape encirclement and defeat after the Normandy landings in France. He was completely unaware that his own command now lay directly in the path of a new and major Allied thrust aimed at ending the war before 1945. The operation was launched on 17 September 1944 with the largest airborne and glider operation in the history of warfare now set to take place. Codenamed 'Operation Market Garden', it was intended to outflank the fearsome German West Wall defences and to ‘bounce' over the river Rhine by taking and holding Arnhem bridge and its environs, from where the Allies could next strike out into the Ruhr, the Nazi's industrial heartland. Such a bold and unexpected move could it was hoped by its Airborne and Army planers, enable them to end the war before the year was over. However, Operation Market Garden and the resulting battle for Arnhem were nothing less than an unmitigated disaster and an outright defeat for the Allied forces involved, despite undeniable

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Author

Anthony Tucker-Jones; Professor Peter Caddick-Adams

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781472839879

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Military History, Humanities