Arnhem: Jumping the Rhine 1944 & 1945

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Arnhem: Jumping the Rhine 1944 & 1945

Editorial: headline

ISBN: 978-07-5536-559-3

ISBN sin guiones: 9780755365593

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 1

Fecha de publicación: 2013-03-28

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

Arnhem: Jumping the Rhine 1944 & 1945

Editorial: headline_review

ISBN: 978-07-5533-637-1

ISBN sin guiones: 9780755336371

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 1

Fecha de publicación: 2009-06-11

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

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Arnhem: Jumping the Rhine 1944 & 1945

Lloyd Clark

Primera publicación: 2009-06-11

An insightful and gripping account of the largest airborne operation in history. In September 1944, the river Rhine was a serious barrier to the advancing Allied armies in the West who were intent on charging Berlin and ending the war. Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery decided to utilise the First Allied Airborne Army consisting of British, American and Polish troops. Codenamed Operation Market Garden, 40,000 paratroopers were dropped behind enemy lines while ground forces linked to relieve them. But, due to bad weather and German resistance, the operation failed. In March 1945, asecond attempt was planned: Operation Varsity Plunder. This time the plan worked. Despite extremely heavy fighting, they cracked the German line.