Arnhem : the battle of the bridges, 1944 / Antony Beevor.

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Beevor, Antony, 1946- [author.]

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Contents:

Table of military ranks -- 1. The chase is on! -- 2. 'Mad Tuesday' -- 3. The first Allied air army -- 4. Doubts dismissed -- 5. The Day of the hatchet -- 6. Final touches -- 7. Eve of battle: Saturday 16 September -- 8. Airborne invasion: Sunday morning, 17 September -- 9. The German reaction: Sunday, 17 September -- 10. The British landings: Sunday, 17 September -- 11. The American landings: Sunday, 17 September -- 12. Night and day Arnhem: 17-18 September -- 13. Arnhem: the second life: Monday, 18 September -- 14. The American Divisions and XXX Corps: Monday, 18 September -- 15. Arnhem: Tuesday, 19 September -- 16. Nijmegen and Eindhoven: Tuesday, 19 September -- 17. Nijmegen: crossing the Waal: Wednesday, 20 September -- 18. Arnhem Bridge and Oosterbeek: Wednesday, 20 September -- 19. Nijmegen and Hell's Highway: Thursday, 21 September -- 20. Oosterbeek: Thursday, 21 September -- 21. Black Friday: 22 September -- 22. Saturday, 23 September -- 23. Sunday, 24 September -- 24. Operation Berlin: Monday, 25 September -- 25. Oosterbeek, Arnhem, Nijmegen: Tuesday, 26 September -- 26. The evacuation and looting of Arnhem: 23 September to November 1944 -- 27. The island of men: September to November 1944 -- 28. The hunger winter: November 1944 to May 1945.

Summary: "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 to his balcony above the flat landscape of southernm Holland to watch the vast air armada of Dakotas and gliders, carrying the Britsih 1st Airborne and the American 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions. He gazed uip 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 faiure was horrendous, above all for the Dutch who risked everything to help. German reprisals were cruel and lasted until the end of the war."--Book jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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 to his balcony above the flat landscape of southernm Holland to watch the vast air armada of Dakotas and gliders, carrying the Britsih 1st Airborne and the American 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions. He gazed uip 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 faiure was horrendous, above all for the Dutch who risked everything to help. German reprisals were cruel and lasted until the end of the war."--Book jacket.

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