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Arnhem 1944: Operation Market Garden

By Stephen Badsey

Book information

Publisher
Osprey Publishing
ISBN
9781855323025, 1855323028
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
49 MB (51369231 bytes)
Series
Campaign 24
Pages
96\97
Time added
2020-09-27 11:47:32
World War 2;History;Military;Military History;War;

Description

'Market Garden' was one of the most audacious, and ultimately controversial, operations of the Second World War - a joint penetration, by an armoured column and a large-scale airborne drop, to punch a decisive hole in the German defences. If it had succeeeded, the war could have ended in 1944. Yet the two-pronged attack failed in its objectives. This book details how, instead of being relieved after 48 hours as expected, British paratroopers were cut off for nine days. Facing two unexpected SS Panzer divisions the Allies were eventually evacuated across the Rhine after putting up an incredible fight: of the 10,000 men involved less than 2,000 survived.

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