Battle for Arnhem 1944-1945
Battle for Arnhem 1944-1945 Operation Market Garden, September 1944, the Netherlands. The prize was the last bridge at Arnhem over the Neder Rijn. Three parachute drops and one armored charge. At the…
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Battle for Arnhem 1944-1945
Operation Market Garden, September 1944, the Netherlands. The prize was the last bridge at Arnhem over the Neder Rijn. Three parachute drops and one armored charge.
At the same time British tanks spearheaded a sixty-mile dash along 'Hell's Highway' to link up with the lightly armed and heavily outnumbered airborne forces.Most books about the resulting battle concentrate on the struggle at Arnhem and the heroism of the British 1st Airborne Taken intact it would provide the Allies with a backdoor into Germany - the famous 'Bridge Too Far.' This was one of the most audacious and imaginative operations of the war, and it failed, and Anthony Tucker-Jones's photographic history is a vivid introduction to it.In a sequence of almost 200 archive photographs accompanied by a detailed narrative he describes the landing of British and American parachutists and glider troops.