Arnhem 1944 - The Airborne BattlePaperback
Arnhem 1944 - The Airborne BattlePaperback Arnhem was meant to end the war in Europe. Three airborne divisions were to seize the bridges across the great rivers of Holland and unleash the Allied…
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Arnhem 1944 - The Airborne BattlePaperback
Arnhem was meant to end the war in Europe. Three airborne divisions were to seize the bridges across the great rivers of Holland and unleash the Allied armies into Germany. The Germans were in retreat from Normandy and seemed to be beaten.
If the bridges had been captured and held, and the ground forces had been able to relieve the airborne forces, then there would have been a good chance of ending the war before Christmas 1944.It all went wrong. The Battle of Arnhem was a turning-point in the war, a gamble by Montgomery, using three airborne divisions to capture a series of bridges across the wide rivers that separated a powerful mobile army from the plains of northern Germany. The initial operation was successful, the bridges taken by the Americans were relieved by ground troops, but these troops could not reach Arnhem quickly enough.
In the meantime, only a small part of the 1st
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