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Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944

Door Antony Beevor

Categorie
WO II
Boeknummer
#311595-VC14
Titel
Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944
Auteur
Beevor, Antony
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London : Viking Penguin Books
Jaar van uitgave
2018
ISBN10
0241326761
ISBN13
9780241326763
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original wrappers, softcover, illustrations in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting
In September 1944, having sped through France and Belgium, Montgomery sought to race into Germany and end the war by Christmas. And failed. Operation Market Garden would drop Allied troops into The Netherlands to secure key bridges across the Rhine along the path of advance. Britain's bestselling historian creates a gripping narrative that shows why the battle was fought and lost.

The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian and author of the classic Stalingrad

On 17 September 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the growing roar of aero engines. He went out on to his balcony above the flat landscape of southern Holland to watch the vast air armada of Dakotas and gliders,carrying the British... (Lees verder) 1st Airborne and the American 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions. He gazed up in envy at the greatest demonstration of paratroop power ever seen.

Operation Market Garden, the plan to end the war by capturing the bridges leading to the Lower Rhine and beyond, was a bold concept: the Americans thought it unusually bold for Field Marshal Montgomery. But the cost of failure was horrendous, above all for the Dutch who risked everything to help. German reprisals were cruel and lasted until the end of the war.

The British fascination for heroic failure has clouded the story of Arnhem in myths, not least that victory was possible when in fact the plan imposed by Montgomery and General 'Boy' Browning was doomed from the start. Antony Beevor, using many overlooked and new sources from Dutch, British, American, Polish and German archives, has reconstructed the terrible reality of this epic clash. Yet this book, written in Beevor's inimitable and gripping narrative style, is about much more than a single dramatic battle. It looks into the very heart of war.
Pagina's
457
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 10,00

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