Operation Market Garden: The Campaign for the Low Countries, Autumn 1944: Seventy Years on

by John Buckley and John Buckley

Book Overview

In September 1944 the Western Allies mounted an audacious attempt to seize a crossing over the Rhine into Germany in a bid to end the Second World War quickly. Yet despite the deployment of thousands of American, British and Polish airborne troops, in conjunction with the efforts of ground forces to link up with them, ultimately at Arnhem in the Netherlands, the plan failed spectacularly and the war continued well into 1945. Famously depicted in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912390469
• ISBN13: 9781912390465
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Helion & Company
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"