The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II (2018)
The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II. Antony Beevor, Viking, 2018.
Battle of Arnhem / World War II
ISBN: 9780525429821
On September 17, 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany’s parachute forces, heard the groaning roar of airplane engines. He went out onto his balcony above the flat landscape of southern Holland to watch the air armada of Dakotas and gliders, carrying the legendary American 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions and the British 1st Airborne Division.
Operation Market Garden, the plan to end the war by capturing the bridges leading to the Lower Rhine and beyond, was a bold concept, but could it have ever 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.
Like new hardcover book in a jacket with very light wear. About 9-1/4 x 6-1/4 with 480 pages.