Arnhem

SKU: 9780670918676
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Arnhem

SKU: 9780670918676
The Sunday Times #1 Bestseller The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian and author of the classic Stalingrad 'Our greatest chronicler of the Second World War . . .
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On 17 September 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the growing roar of aeroplane engines.

 He went out on to his balcony above the flat landscape of southern Holland to watch the air armada of Dakotas and gliders carrying the British 1st Airborne and the American 101st and 82nd Airborne divisions. He gazed up in envy at this massive demonstration of paratroop power. 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 could it ever have worked? The cost of failure was horrendous, above all for the Dutch, who risked everything to help. German reprisals were pitiless and cruel, and lasted until the end of the war.

The British fascination with heroic failure has clouded the story of Arnhem in myths. Antony Beevor, using often overlooked sources from Dutch, British, American, Polish and German archives, has reconstructed the terrible reality of the fighting, which General Student himself called 'The Last German Victory'. Yet this book, written in Beevor's inimitable and gripping narrative style, is about much more than a single, dramatic battle.


Age Range: 18+
Publisher Date: 2019-06-26
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Pages: 457
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Language: English

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Chris Gibbons (Cape Town, ZA)
Remarkable portrayal of a disaster

Antony Beevor has captured one of the great Allied disasters of WWII in exquisite - but dreadfully painful- detail. He takes us through Field Marshal Montgomery's unbelievably arrogant decision to bully Eisenhower into proceeding with the mission all the way to the annihilation of the Paras at the end. Along the way, we are taken onto the various battlefields, are shown the heroism of the Dutch civilians and also - in fairness - the often extreme efficiency and fairness of the German opponents. If you think everything after D-Day was 'a walk in the park', read Arnhem to disabuse yourself. Naturally, if you're a Beevor fan, you won't be disappointed.