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Arnhem 1944

The Airborne Battle

Author: Martin Middlebrook  

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Arnhem remains one of the most popular subjects: a glorious failure. Martin Middlebrook is arguably the finest military historian alive today. His study perfectly captures both of the spirit of his legendary battle by personal accounts and the strategic and tactical backgrounds.

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Arnhem remains one of the most popular subjects: a glorious failure. Martin Middlebrook is arguably the finest military historian alive today. His study perfectly captures both of the spirit of his legendary battle by personal accounts and the strategic and tactical backgrounds.

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Arnhem was meant to end the war in Europe. The Germans were in retreat from Normandy and seemed to be beaten. Three airborne divisions were to seize the bridges across the great rivers of Holland and unleash the Allied armies into Germany. The Battle of Arnhem was a turning-point in the war, a gamble by Montgomery, using three airborne divisions to capture a series of bridges across the wide rivers that separated a powerful mobile army from the plains of northern Germany. If the bridges had been captured and held, and the ground forces had been able to relieve the airborne forces, then there would have been a good chance of ending the war before Christmas 1944. It all went wrong. The initial operation was successful, the bridges taken by the Americans were relieved by ground troops, but these troops could not reach Arnhem quickly enough. In the meantime, only a small part of the 1st British Airborne Division had reached the Arnhem Bridge. Most of the remainder of the airborne force was held up on the outskirts of the town by German units that turned out to be far stronger than expected - a major intelligence failure. After nine days of fighting, the survivors of the division were withdrawn across the Rhine and it was not until many months later that ground forces captured Arnhem. Using the technique he has perfected over twenty-five years of military study, blending meticulous research based on original documents with the personal experiences of more than 500 participants, Martin Middlebrook describes the Battle of Arnhem from start to finish, from one end of that complicated battlefield to the other. The author offers a masterly summary of what went wrong in the last major defeat in battle suffered by the British Army. AUTHOR: Martin Middlebrook has written many other books that deal with important turning-points in the two world wars, including The First Day on the Somme, KaiserOs Battle, The Peenemunde Raid, The Somme Battlefields (with Mary Middlebrook) and The Nuremburg Raid 30-31st March 1944 (all republished and in print with Pen and Sword). Martin Middlebrook is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and lives near Boston, Lincolnshire 24 b/w photographs

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Martin Middlebrook has written many other books that deal with important turning-points in the two world wars, including The First Day on the Somme, KaiserOs Battle, The PeenemŸnde Raid, The Somme Battlefields (with Mary Middlebrook) and The Nuremburg Raid 30-31st March 1944 (all republished and in print with Pen and Sword).Martin Middlebrook is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and lives near Boston, Lincolnshire

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Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd | Pen & Sword Military
Published
3rd April 2018
Pages
501
ISBN
9781526726803

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