Arnhem - it was the last major battle lost by the British Army,
lost not by the men who fought there but by the overconfidence of
generals, faulty planning and the failure of a relieving force
given too great a task. If the operation of which Arnhem formed a
part had been successful, the outcome of the war and the history of
post-war Europe would have been greatly altered. Yet is it worth
another book? I had fulfilled all my literary ambitions by
researching and writing thirteen full-length books and was ready to
retire from that laborious craft when Peter van Gorsel, head of
Penguin's Dutch office, asked me to write a book on Arnhem for the
fiftieth anniversary in 1994. It was the first time that my
publishers had requested a book; all previous subjects had been my
choice. I eventually agreed for several reasons. I had not
previously researched and written about the British Army in the
Second World War and had not previously done any work in Holland;
so two fresh fields were opened up to me. I also felt that the
fighting in and around Arnhem had still not been described in the
detail that it merited.
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