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Arnhem: Myth and Reality: Airborne Warfare, Air Power and the Failure of Operation Market Garden

Categorie	WO II
Boeknummer	#331906-VE30
Titel	Arnhem: Myth and Reality: Airborne Warfare, Air Power and the Failure of Operation Market Garden
Auteur	Ritchie, Sebastian
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London : Robert Hale
Jaar van uitgave	2011
ISBN10	0709089910
ISBN13	9780709089919
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original boards, silver lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with some b/w photographs, small map, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Operation Market Garden, often depicted as one of the most decisive military actions of the Allied campaign, offered an opportunity to conclude hostilities with Hitler's Germany before 1945 but its disastrous failure left the Allies facing another seven months of difficult and costly fighting. Here, Sebastian Ritchie demonstrates that the operation can only be properly understood if it is considered alongside earlier airborne ventures and reassesses the role of the Allied air forces and the widely held view that they bore a particular responsibility for Market Garden's failure. By placing Market Garden in its correct historical setting and by reassessing Allied air plans and their execution, this groundbreaking book provides a radically different view of the events of September 1944, chall... (Lees verder)enging much of the current orthodoxy in the process.
Pagina's	272
Conditie	Goed — Bottom cover worn, still a good copy.
Prijs	€ 20,00

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