Arnhem 1944

 

An explosive new history of the battle immortalised in A Bridge Too Far where paratroopers fought in vain to secure a bridgehead over the Rhine. On Sunday 17 September 1944, over 2,000 transport aircraft lifted off from airfields across England and set a course for Holland. They were the first wave of the largest airborne operation in history, codenamed Operation Market Garden. Their task was to open a sixty-mile corridor for Allied ground forces from the Belgian border to Arnhem on the Lower Rhine. Nine days later, the remnants of the British 1st Airborne Division were evacuated from a precarious foothold seven miles west of Arnhem having failed utterly. William Buckingham's account, based on new research, unearths the reasons why the attack really failed.

 

William Buckingham

Softcover 255pp

Book Code:  EX0805

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