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Arnhem 1944 - The Airborne Battle (Paperback)
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Arnhem 1944 - The Airborne Battle (Paperback)
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Loot Price R544
Discovery Miles 5 440
You Save R112 (17%)
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Arnhem was meant to end the war in Europe. The Germans were in
retreat from Normandy and seemed to be beaten. Three airborne
divisions were to seize the bridges across the great rivers of
Holland and unleash the Allied armies into Germany. The Battle of
Arnhem was a turning-point in the war, a gamble by Montgomery,
using three airborne divisions to capture a series of bridges
across the wide rivers that separated a powerful mobile army from
the plains of northern Germany. If the bridges had been captured
and held, and the ground forces had been able to relieve the
airborne forces, then there would have been a good chance of ending
the war before Christmas 1944. It all went wrong. The initial
operation was successful, the bridges taken by the Americans were
relieved by ground troops, but these troops could not reach Arnhem
quickly enough. In the meantime, only a small part of the 1st
British Airborne Division had reached the Arnhem Bridge. Most of
the remainder of the airborne force was held up on the outskirts of
the town by German units that turned out to be far stronger than
expected -� a major intelligence failure. After nine days of
fighting, the survivors of the division were withdrawn across the
Rhine and it was not until many months later that ground forces
captured Arnhem. Using the technique he has perfected over
twenty-five years of military study, blending meticulous research
based on original documents with the personal experiences of more
than 500 participants, Martin Middlebrook describes the Battle of
Arnhem from start to finish, from one end of that complicated
battlefield to the other.� The author offers a masterly
summary of what went wrong in the last major defeat in battle
suffered by the British Army.
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