Arnhem: The Complete Story of Operation Market Garden 17-25 September 1944

by William F. Buckingham

Book Overview

On 21 August 1944 German Army Group B was destroyed in Normandy and Allied troops began pressing east from the beachhead they had occupied since the D-Day landings. Within days British troops had liberated Brussels and reached the Dutch border. Encouraged by seeming total German collapse, the Allies gambled their overstretched resources on a high-risk strategy aimed at opening the way into Germany itself - crossing the Rhine. On the afternoon of Sunday...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1398101567
• ISBN13: 9781398101562
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"