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The Battle for Arnhem 1944-1945 - Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives (Paperback)
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The Battle for Arnhem 1944-1945 - Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives (Paperback)
Series: Images of War
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Discovery Miles 3 710
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Operation Market Garden, September 1944, the Netherlands. Three
parachute drops and one armoured charge. The prize was the last
bridge at Arnhem over the Neder Rijn. Taken intact it would provide
the Allies with a back door into Germany - the famous Bridge Too
Far'. This was one of the most audacious and imaginative operations
of the war, and it failed, and Anthony Tucker-Jones's photographic
history is a vivid introduction to it. In a sequence of almost 200
archive photographs accompanied by a detailed narrative he
describes the landing of British and American parachutists and
glider troops. At the same time British tanks spearheaded a
sixty-mile dash along Hell's Highway' to link up with the lightly
armed and heavily outnumbered airborne forces. Most books about the
resulting battle concentrate on the struggle at Arnhem and the
heroism of the British 1st Airborne Division. This book puts that
episode in its wider context. In particular it focuses on the
efforts of the US 101st and 82nd airborne divisions to hold off
counterattacks by German battlegroups during the tanks' advance.
The photographs give a dramatic insight into all sides of a
remarkable but ill-fated operation which has fascinated historians
and been the subject of controversy ever since. They also portray,
as only photographs can, the men who were involved and the places
and conditions in which the fighting took place.
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