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Arnhem: Defeat and Glory: A Miniaturist Persepective (Hardcover)
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Arnhem: Defeat and Glory: A Miniaturist Persepective (Hardcover)
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In the spirit of Cornelius Ryan's epic A Bridge Too Far an American
author retells the story of the ill-fated Allied operation code
named "Operation Market Garden." The audacious, yet multi-faceted
Allied plan in September 1944 included an airborne carpet of 35,000
troops, dropped along a sixty four mile corridor reinforced by the
entire British 2nd Army with the intent of seizing the Ruhr
Industrial Valley and end the war before Christmas! The author
uniquely combines the best works available into a superbly
researched and illustrated text, suffused with a masterful
articulation of the entire Allied tragedy in combination with 20mm
scale miniature portraiture. The "visual seams" of oral military
history are filled through the author's interpreting of the battle
in miniature. Horsa gliders are once again seen dropping "flaps
down" onto the Spandau raked fields of Ginkel Heide. Captain Viktor
Graebner's 9th SS Recce fatefully charges towards Colonel Frost's
battalion holding the northern ramp of the Arnhem Bridge. Major
Julian Cooks leads the heroic "Hail Mary Full of Grace" 82nd
Airborne river assault across the Waal. Brigadier Lathbury's First
Parachute Brigade conduct their final charge beyond St. Elizabeths
Hospital and the Hartenstein Pocket steadfastly holds against enemy
attempt to liquidate them.
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