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Arnhem - The Battle for the Bridges, 1944: The Sunday Times No 1 Bestseller (Paperback)
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Arnhem - The Battle for the Bridges, 1944: The Sunday Times No 1 Bestseller (Paperback)
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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' - Robert Fox, Evening Standard ______________ 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, who
risked everything to help. German reprisals were pitiless and
cruel, and lasted until the end of the war. The British fascination
with heroic failure has clouded the story of Arnhem in myths.
Antony Beevor, using often overlooked sources from Dutch, British,
American, Polish and German archives, has reconstructed the
terrible reality of the fighting, which General Student himself
called 'The Last German Victory'. Yet this book, written in
Beevor's inimitable and gripping narrative style, is about much
more than a single, dramatic battle. It looks into the very heart
of war. ______________ 'In Beevor's hands, Arnhem becomes a study
of national character' - Ben Macintyre, The Times 'Superb book,
tirelessly researched and beautifully written' - Saul David, Daily
Telegraph 'Complete mastery of both the story and the sources' -
Keith Lowe, Literary Review
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