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The Sunday Times #1 Bestseller The Great Airborne Battle For The Bridges In 1944 By Britain's Number One Bestselling Historian And Author Of The Classic Stalingrad 'our Greatest Chronicler Of The Second World War . . . His Fans Will Love It' - Robert Fox, Evening Standard 'the Eye For Telling Detail Which We Have Come To Expect From Antony Beevor. . . This Time, Though, He Turns His Brilliance As A Military Historian To A Subject Not Just Of Defeat, But Dunderhead Stupidity' Daily Mail On 17 September 1944, General Kurt Student, The Founder Of Nazi Germany's Parachute Forces, Heard The Growing Roar Of Aeroplane Engines. He Went Out On To His Balcony Above The Flat Landscape Of Southern Holland To Watch The 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 This Massive Demonstration Of Paratroop Power. 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 Could It Ever Have Worked? The Cost Of Failure Was Horrendous, Above All For The Dutch,

Author
Antony Beevor
Publisher
Penguin Books, Limited
Published
2018
Language
EN
ISBN
9780141941295

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