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Abundance of Valor - Resistance, Survival, and Liberation: 1944-45 (Paperback)
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Abundance of Valor - Resistance, Survival, and Liberation: 1944-45 (Paperback)
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The operation known as "Market-Garden"-made famous in the book and
film A Bridge Too Far-was the largest airborne assault in history
up to that time, a high-risk Allied invasion of enemy territory
that has become a legend of World War II even as it still invites
criticism. Abundance of Valor re-creates for the first time the
full adventures of the bold "Jedburgh" paratroopers, whose exploits
were equally risky and heroic. Kicked off on September 17, 1944,
Market-Garden was intended to secure crucial bridges in
Nazi-occupied Holland by a parachute assault conducted by three
Allied airborne divisions. Jedburgh teams-Allied Special
Forces-were dropped into the Netherlands to train and use the Dutch
resistance in support of the larger operation. Based on new
firsthand testimony of survivors and declassified documents,
Abundance of Valor concentrates on the three teams that operated
farthest behind enemy lines, the nine men whose treacherous
missions resulted in deaths, captures, and hairbreadth escapes.
With piercing criticism of the mission's failure through faulty use
of intelligence, Abundance of Valor is a brutally honest and truly
inspiring account of fighting men in a noble cause who did their
jobs with extraordinary honor and courage.
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